A2W Intercooler with A/C - Part 2
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Any of you guys pursue this at all?
I am interested in an air to water setup, but no way in heck that I would risk killing my ac system to chill the coolant, I think that some sort of cO2 system would be the best bet with a similar heat exchanger to the chiller killer.
The main benefits that I see would be the improved throttle response and reduced pressure drop through the system.
Any idea on a way to quantify the response results?
And as far as performance improvement, flow test? Seems like it would be hard to do a fair dyno comparison using a sub-ambient cooled fluid
I am interested in an air to water setup, but no way in heck that I would risk killing my ac system to chill the coolant, I think that some sort of cO2 system would be the best bet with a similar heat exchanger to the chiller killer.
The main benefits that I see would be the improved throttle response and reduced pressure drop through the system.
Any idea on a way to quantify the response results?
And as far as performance improvement, flow test? Seems like it would be hard to do a fair dyno comparison using a sub-ambient cooled fluid
Well, the idea would be to run the heater and the AC simultaneously, this would be used in the summer time, so your ac effectiveness would be reduced, if that is what you mean.
Great idea, but why not just put a small nozzle of just water injection (no meth, ok maybe a little meth like 10%)
You can make a cheap rudementory system that runs from a 4psi hobs, gets DI water from the washer tank, all going to a relatively small nozzle.
This way there is no fire risk due to water not being flammable, neither is 10% meth.
Small nozzle means there is no risk of hydrolock.
And since it's only being used for cooling there no need for an expensive controller.
You can make a cheap rudementory system that runs from a 4psi hobs, gets DI water from the washer tank, all going to a relatively small nozzle.
This way there is no fire risk due to water not being flammable, neither is 10% meth.
Small nozzle means there is no risk of hydrolock.
And since it's only being used for cooling there no need for an expensive controller.
Yeah, I see that was your intent, not a bad idea, but it seems like the factory AC can barely keep the cabin cold in the summer! The good news is that it would be essentially free to try once you had a w2a setup.
I have an intercooler that fits quite nicely, and am going to see about having some charge pipes made.
Yeah, I can't say that it would be great inside the cabin, in fact if it worked well the air would be hot when the AC is on.
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why not just get rail with some orifices on it mounted on the intercooler and have it active via hobbswitch ... can have a tank and pump in trunk just like meth
why not just get rail with some orifices on it mounted on the intercooler and have it active via hobbswitch ... can have a tank and pump in trunk just like meth
