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would it be realistic, or helpful to hp gains to have an intercooler without turbo? I mean, just for the purpose of getting really cool air into the engine?

 
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i duno if it'll actually work.. but i could be wrong..[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG]

 
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you can have forced induction without and inter(after) cooler.

 
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No turbo = no use for intercooler.

An intercooler just keeps your engine cooler than stock. If you're not using a turbo/supercharger you wont be creating enough heat to actually need one. Plus, its just too much work.

 
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Its not a practical application w/o the turbo.

 
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An intercooler can only cool down the air to ambient. That's the temperature of the air that the engine ingests anyway, so why bother cooling it down to ambient? A turbo heats up the air past ambient, so that's why there's a use for an intercooler. Now, if you were to hook up a fefrigeration system to an intake, then that would give you some more power. Sort of like an A/C system.

 
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- Doesn't Arospeed or APC or one of those type companies make a Intercooler style intake? Basically a intercooler sort of looking thing goes down there, attached to piping to the intake manifold. Don't know if it really works or anything about it, just remember seeing the ad in SuperStreet (that alone should tell you something....)

 
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yeah they do have them, my buddy up here has one, and he consideres it to be like a ram air style. It seems to work anyway but you miss out on the awesome sound of a normal intake

 
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An intercooler with no turbo does absolutely nothing. The intercooler is supposed to cool the intake charge of air coming from the turbo, allowing you to run higher boost. You still need the radiator to cool the engine itself.

 
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I wouldnt call it rice, but it's unecessary, that's for sure.

 
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first of all that arospeed intake is just a ricer's product, if you seen one of those, you would notice a 90 degree bend in the piping, how would that be good for air flow??. Plus the distance it takes to get to the throttle body is too long, your lowend will be sacrificed drastically. Plus, why would you want an intake that looks like an intercooler??? When you driving around and you want to race somebody, and you lose, the person that beat you would look in his rear view mirror and say damn, I just beat a turbocharged _______ because of that intercooler-style intake., rice if you ask me. Sorry.

 
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intercooler.....no turbo..... maaaaaaaaan :::::holds back flaming::::::: ok... i try to be good and except those that know little [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]