ambystom01

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An intercooler is just too large though. That pipe bulges a little, but it's nothing like you'd have with an intercooler. Plus the piping appears to be quite short so it's not far from the vacuum source.

ILovE WHEELS

but ur thinking about the intercooler being to large doesnt make sense bc i wanst thinkin about running a huge intercooler the idea i was thinking of would be using a small fmic idea

ambystom01

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Either way it'd be far too large. Even with a tiny intercooler you'd still experience the problems associated with pressure and filter distance.

ambystom01

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Just as an exercise, try the straw experiment. Put two funnels taped together in the middle and see how easy it is to get any water up to the top.

ILovE WHEELS

ur funel idea doesnt really make sense im confused what that has to do with an intake and intercooler

ambystom01

iTrader: (7)

it would look like this,

ambystom01

iTrader: (7)

Each of the straws would represent an intake pipe.

Green_Bandit

iTrader: (25)

Just try the straw thing man.

Take two straws, cut one i half and suck in air from both taking turns...

Ok now take a third straw, cut it in half, tape a round hollow ball shaped object to the end the middle and tape it back so its a long straw with a hollow ball in the middle and suck in air.

You WILL see that it is harder with the hollow ball in the middle.

Long straw ball<Long straw<Short straw

There might even be a "how things work" on air intakes...

ILovE WHEELS

but intercoolers are not empty they have rows so that idea doesnt compare

Green_Bandit

iTrader: (25)

Well, add some cotton *****. sheesh...

Try the straw thing. You will see

ILovE WHEELS

cotton *****.......

ILovE WHEELS

is this a fact that u know ,and also why does everyone think that intercoolers are so restrictive? i know that this whole idea is kinda getting out of hand but what everyone is saying are just thoughts, has anyone every tried this out to prove it wrong. i know someone has to have an intercooler laying around somewhere
and as a reminder to everyone this is just an idea so calm down with the dumb comments

ambystom01

iTrader: (7)

It's not that intercoolers are restrictive, they're basically just like a radiator for air. The problem lies in the distance the filter will lie from the TB and simply the large amount of air that the intercooler can hold.

x838nwy

The large section after tha air filter here serves I think two purposes. The frist is to reduce the pressure drop. The pipe friction loss or pressure drop as it flows along a pipe increases in smaller pipe cross sections, so having a larger pipe diameter is better.

The other purpose is that it can actually improve response as there is a volume of air in the pipe so that when the throttle is open suddenly, there is an amount of air that's available straightaway so transient response shuld be better.

I'm not sure what's happening in the AEM one, but in the black one the quite compicated shape is probably used to even out the airflow at the outlet also. If you have a bend in the pipe, there's a velocity difference between the outside and the inside and if you're not careful, there can be significantly more flow towards one side than another.

Finally, intercoolers _are_ restrictive compared to a straight pipe of the same diameter as the intercoolers inlet/outlet. Instead of flowing though one big pipe, you're flowing through lots of little ones and this causes friction losses.

ILovE WHEELS

gotcha ....finally a good answer