Kenny_Stang

During my Supercharged build (Comptech Novi 1000) I decided to upgrade to the Science of Speed Racing Heat Exchanger and the Bosch/Cobra water pump. Yesterday went and got the car dynoed, and encountered problems with the lower hose getting kinked and stopping the flow of water to the intercooler. Does anyone else run this setup and have some pictures on how you routed your lines to the intercooler?

This is how I currently have the lines routed:

Kenny_Stang

Also if it helps, this is how the lines are currently being routed, I noticed on RAIN H8R's build thread he did not run them like this... what is the correct setup?

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starrman

RAIN H8R's is correct...I think they even have it wrong on SOS's site or they did at one time.

CoolGuy094

I went to the hardware store and bought a 3/4" male 90° elbow to eliminate having to bend the hose and have it kink up.

lude92_si

Also what I did. Plastic 90s. Worked great.

Kenny_Stang

Can someone post what the correct routing for the lines should be??? The setup I currently have is what SOS stated on their instructions.

Thanks, once I get the routing figured out I'll pick up a few of these: http://www.dormanproducts.com/p-19916-47063.aspx

Kenny_Stang

Yes that does help, so basically I only have to swap lines on the heat exchanger, everything else stays the same:

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Kenny_Stang

Love how you have yours routed, unfortunately I have a sensor of some sort where you have yours mounted (MY06/AP2), but I'll give it a look when I remove the front bumper.

Kenny_Stang

Re-routed the hoses to the "correct" routing and installed two 90 degree elbows where the hoses were getting kinked. Drained and refilled with distilled water... Now to go test how the system is running, supposed to be 102 here today, so it should be a perfect day for testing.

Kenny_Stang

Ended up doing some testing over the weekend, the system seemed to work better, but the IAT's still seemed to be quite high (stabilized at 165 after about 20 minutes of combined highway and surface street driving, 100 degree day). I have read others say that ~20-25 degree IAT's above the current temperature is a good measurement of a decently working system... any other ideas on what I can look at or improve to get the system to work "better"?