Here was my current setup




Its getting to heat soaked this summer at the drag strip. My solution is a water intercooler + dry ice or liquid CO2.

Here are is a shots of the fitment




The intercooler is from an all trac toyota celica, it was a pain in the butt to locate.

More pictures and captions can be found at
http://www.d-seriesturboninja....7#597

 

I like that piping to the right of the air filter, what is it, radiator hose?

 

flex pipe with black sealing tape around it.

Nick

 

what exactly makes this a 'water' intercooler? It just looks like a junkyard sidemount to me.

 

look at the bottom pic, the water intercooler is in the car next to the throttle body. not the one on the ground..

 

part one is finished

I'm finished for the day

Here are some updated pictures

 

Anyone got some aluminum pipe to give to this guy?

 

I would run both the air to air and the air to water as the air to water unit will get heatsoaked in the engine bay. If you have ever run a toyota that runs that intercooler you will know what I am talking about. We ran a celica with that same intercooler at an autocross and when we were done popped the hood and took and infared thermometer and shot the intercooler it was at 185 degrees. That my friend isnt alot better than no intercooler at all.

 

Dont the toyotas actually run the intercooler through the motor radiator to cool it? I would see that as a very big down fall. In my setup the water IC will have its own radiator. When I head to the track I'm going to put some dry ice in that radiator ;-). See if I can get the temps down on the track. I know that it wont be the best daily driver intercooler, but I'm different.

Nick

 

nice DIY

 

you should run a water reserve..

 

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oh i see. missed that before. neat idea but very hard to impliment on a street car. fits in there nicely too.

 

ST185RC intercooler?

 

yep the small 185.

Nick

 

The Sy/Ty air/water intercooler is much easier to locate and probably bigger and better .

 

Interesting DIY . It doesn't look half bad once it is painted .

 

That is a rare *** I/C, hard to find here even

 

In this step I have been working on the water lines, radiator and container.

Modifying the probe intercooler to make it a radiator

What I did is remove the intake ports, then I got some sheet metal I had around and make circles to close the ports. I have drilled on the side of the intercooler a spot for two nipples. The problem was the two nipples needed to be on the same side, but for getting the 'oldest' water, I needed to pull the water from the other side of the intercooler. What I did was put a hose on the end of the a nipple before I inserted into the intercooler. The hose allows you will get the water from the other side of the intercooler, problem solved.

Pics










Here is the trailer park radiator finished. It holds water fine, doesnt show any leaks.. yet.


Now working with the water reserve,

I purchased a 6 gallon fuel tank from walmart and a marine pump.

While examining the pump the ports looked like the same size as my 5 gallon water container(which also came from walmart, Yikes!). So I conected the two and it was a match.

Next will be to add a return port to the 5 gallon container.





Here is a mod I did to also help with the heat, 92-95 have the air tempature sensor on the manifold, that was a dumb idea they fix 96+. Here is my fix I'm put the sensor directly after the water intercooler, I hope this will keep the ecu from pulling my timing.



Nick