My IAT’s are stupid. 80 deg over ambient easy.
I’m hesitant to cut anything to get a CAI into the front passenger bumper area.

Anyone drop their filter to the bottom of the radiator, between the fans?

Or any opinions on moving it there?

 

Your IATs make zero sense unless you have the 06+ kit that puts the IAT sensor in the elbow for the blower inlet.....I've never really understood the point of moving the filter at all.....The aftercooler does a majority of the work when it comes to cooling the charge air...not sure how much of a difference changing the ambient air inlet temp would make pre-cooler.

Relocate the IAT sensor to the aftercooler, preferably right at the outlet to the throttle body to get ACTUAL IATs.

 

Yep. 06+ kit. I’d imagine the Skunk2 header w/o heat shield isn’t helping.

Seems like moving the sensor is the way to go. It’s amazing what a different car it is once temps heat up.

Might as well have a lip welded onto the entrance to the cooler while it’s out.

 

Yup, there ya go. I don’t see the header making a HUGE difference, but I’m sure that isn’t helping.

The newer SOS kit has the option for them to weld a bung to the backside of the cooler right next to the outlet.





https://www.scienceofspeed.com/index...0-2006-09.html

 

The aftercooler is just a heat exchanger (and the "cold" water will generally be above ambient) -- it has limited capacity of how many degrees it can cool the fast moving air that's passing through it

hot air in = warm air out
warm air in = cooler air out

 

I couldn't imagine the compressed air leaving the blower to be very cool to begin with. I'm just saying I don't think people will see a massive benefit to moving the intake of the blower to a little cooler of a source. I feel like if that was the case places like SOS and all the other premier turbo kit manufacturers would have a cold air intake of some sort instead of keeping the intake in the bay.

 

don’t really need to imagine. It’s been tested by several people to reduce IAT’s. Comptech and Vortech kits both use an airbox to reduce intake temps

 

Is there benefit to relocating the IAT sensor to the TB coupler in 06+ kits?

 

Absolutely. It's the best source to get the most accurate reading for ACTUAL IATs. When you have the IAT in the elbow of the blower inlet you're essentially measuring the temperature of the hot engine bay air. The ideal location would be post-cooler so you're actually getting the temperature of the air that's being ingested into the throttle body. Even the 00-05s can benefit from this as I've heard the intake manifold heat soaks pretty bad also throwing off the temp reading.

 

Post intercooler indeed.