Water to Air intercoolers

[lowfat_hg]

hey guys, was trolling through ebay and stumbled across these intercoolers. If i had not already bought one i would be getting one of these.

check them out

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Water-to-Air...yZ130643QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[em_knaps]

Try this one,

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/LIQU...ryZ33602QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

then rob the rest of the system from a subaru.

thats wot i rekon anyways

 

[striker]

build you own using laminova cores, smaller and more efficient.

grtz Thomas

 

[Kev]

Striker,

I agree with the laminova type coolers, but how is the average bloke ment to make up the housing to fit the coolers in to. I would love to have them inside my manifold, any ideas.

Kev

 

[striker]

Yep Ideas enough, draw up in cad and CNC from solid.

But I need to figure out the intake for the manifold first before I an decide to make the intercoolers 2 by 2 or all 4 in one box. I have got very little room, but have decided not to use the valley mounted starter motor, so that frees up a lot of "hopefully" usefull space.

Ideally for home brew systems you need to have 39.7mm ID alloy tube, which nobody seems to make, If you find any please feel free to share, that would be the key to very cheap IC housings for laminova cores.

40 would work but wouldn't aid efficiency Laminova told me you would loose about 32% efficiency if the ID is bigger than +0.4mm than the core diameter of 39.5. so Ideally to keep laminar flow it should be 39.7

I'm in contact with a tube manufacturer in the UK who maybe can pull this off in small numbers, even with the 15mm lengthwise slots allready in.

end caps can be figured out quite easily and sealed with cheap O-rings the rest can be either soldered or welded together.

Grtz Thomas

 

[LondonBenji]

Thomas if you don't mind have you got any drawings of your design plans, I'm trying to figure out in my head how you are going to package it all together.

 

[striker]

sort of like this, but this on is machiened from solid and very exensive retail, If you had tubes where the cores hang in youd be able to cut manufacturing costs in tenth probably, it would only take time and little specialized tools.

the top in the picture is where air enters, it exits at the bottom whcih looks the same, you could basicly put a 5mm alu plate on this one which takes for instance an M90
then put it up on a richwood manifold, but high will be +65mm then which I don't have. therefor I will try and put the cores on top of a cut down manifold and have the entrys ducted to two 65mm tubes from the side mount SC's

grtz Thomas