What if you installed a intercooler on the front of the car and closed one opening and ran a pipe from the other opening to the throttle body?

Would that not be super cold air?


But you would need to install a filter between the intercooler and and the throttle body.....correct?


I was thinking about that for my S2K.


If it wont work can someone explain why?

 

 

sorry, but you seem to have no clue whatsoever about how passive cooling works

intercoolers work on turbos because the air coming out of the turbo is hot, and the intercooler exchanges heat with the ambient air to bring that air temp down closer to ambient levels.

running air that is already at ambient temp will give you air that is cooled to, drum-roll please, ambient temp. Plus, you have the added restriction, meaning you will lose HP.

edit: did you say CLOSE ONE OPENING? A motor can't run without air...closing an opening will mean no air passes through. The vanes in an intercooler are meant to have air pass over them...they do not bring in air.

 

If I knew how the intercooler worked I would have not asked the question.....


Thanks for clearing that up.

 

"installed a intercooler on the front of the car and closed one opening and ran a pipe from the other opening to the throttle body?"

 

Well obviously, that's why he's asking the question so he can learn

He's probably thinking of a refrigeration unit where the incoming air (ambient or hot) is cooled to cold air through the condensing of a gas into a liquid and then heating it back into a gas.

 

if you closed off one end of the intercooler, where is the outside air coming in from? an intercooler is sealed off from the outside (minus the inlet and outlet pipes.)


if a filter was installed inline between the intercooler and throttle body, that would be no different than a short ram style intake. it would just have a useless piece of metal attached to the end that doesn't connect to the engine.

 

he was asking a serious question. he didn't know how intercoolers worked. no need to make fun.

 

question, would cooling the radiator affect the performance in any way? like they have the water spray for the intercooler. a water spray for the radiator?

 

Yeah, an intercooler doesn't actually take air into it like you may think as the charge piping goes up to the throttle body, it just cools the compressed air that is passing through it. Nothing wrong with asking questions, god knows I have asked a bunch of what now seem stupid questions.