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Im sure this has been asked before but is it bad if the intercooler gets wet? Cause im afraid to wash my car cause I dont want the same effect as a CAI.

 
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it is okay to the intercooler wet. think about all those turboed cars out their!!!

 
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no ull be fine, its a solid sealed metal device that air flows thorough. wash ur car all u want, hell spray some water on the IC then go drive it, make the air inside even cooler

 
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yeah, whenever i wash my car, i spray and scrub all the bugs of my FMIC

 
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im gonna give my car a nice wash now. Thanks guys.

 
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Also I have another question. Im not doing this but just FMI, can you use an intercooler as an intake. Like if you close off one side and run piping from the other side would that work? Just wondering.

 
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you have swap and turbo now? pics?

 
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Yeah dude i just got the greddy street legal turbo kit a couple days ago. LOL i hade to take a second job as a parking director to pay for it. But as soon as I can ill post some pics.

 
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And why would you do that?

As air gets compressed, it raises in temperature. An intercooler simply brings the temperature down some. Their is no filter in an intercooler, so i don't know why you would want to run one as an intake.

 
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i dont want to run it as an intake. I have no reason to. i just wanted to know. Something I was pondering as I was installing my intercooler.

 
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Obviosly you have no clue about how an intercooler works.

An intercooler is sealed. It is not open. If you close off one side and the other side went to the throttle body the motor wouldn't run. It could not get any air.

You can spray water directly on an intercooler with the motor running all day long and nothing will happen except maybe the air will be a little cooler entering the motor.

You have a swap and a turbo but you don't know how an intercooler works. If you are installing your own intercooler you should know this. I think everyone will agree with me on this one. LOL

Not trying to make you look bad or be an *** about it but, come on.

 
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yea, but if you follow his post, he's a noob about a lot of stuff. Yet, he has a boosted k20 in his civic.

I just keep thinking...what the hell, god must be on crack.

 
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so because im a noob i cant have a turbo....umm ok. So I dont know alot about it but with explinations like the one above will help me learn. You dont have to flame. Thanks Barney for the explination. I lknow how a turbo works just wasnt sure on the intercooler.

 
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its not that you can't have a turbo, its more like how come you have one.

Sort of like, would you buy and use a cnc milling machine without knowing how it works?

 
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I know how a turbo works. Just wasnt sure exactly how an intercooler works, I know it cools the air but I wasnt clear on everything. And now I am thanks to barney. So you are over it now.

 
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if u take one side off of the intercooler and use it as an intake, ur turbo will be spinning like no other and burn it up eventually...BAD

 
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do you really have a K20+turbo in your civic man? Damn dude, but you're gonna get the BS flag really soon, if you keep acting like a noob...

 
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you know thats funny though how you guys dont get it. I didnt say I was using my intercooler as an intake. I stated that clearly. I was simply pondering the question. And if you wanna throw a bs flag i could care less. Call bs all you want like its gonna hurt my feelings. Could care less if you dont belive me. So w/e.

 
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i doubt its that people are thinking you want to run an intercooler as an intake, but rather that you thought it was possible and you thought you couldn't wash your car because you had an intercooler.

Don't get so bent out of shape about it.

 
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Ok heres a quick run down of how an intercooler works.

As the turbo compresses air it gets hot. Now if it gets too hot bad things start to happen, including blowing up that nice K20A2 you have.

So we need to cool the air down before it goes into the engine. This is where an intercooler comes into play.

Lets you have 2 containers of hot soup. One container is a tall glass, the other is a large pizza pan. Both have the same amount of soup, which one will cool down faster?

The pizza pan will because it has more surface area to allow the soup to cool. Thus more soup can be exposed to the somewhat colder air than opposed to the tall glass.

Now with an intercooler the "path" the air can take is split up into many small rows. Air can flow around each of these rows and can cool the air alot more than just having air blow over a normal intake pipe.

An intercooler is simply a cooling unit for air, The only place air is sucked in is with the air filter.

 
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^^^ OMFG...........that is the best picture ever !!!!

 
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keep the flamin' to a minimum... it's starting to get hot in here...

 
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give the guy a break. he asks a simple question and gets flamed. regardless if he knows every working part on his car, he should still get the same respect as everyone else. And since when do you have to be 1st class mechanic to own a turbo k20? the man just said he had to take a second job to pay for this stuff. everybody has to start somewhere..

 
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XSRCivic,

Your post was usless. You left no information. All you did was come in here and post another reason for someone to write back like I am now and say something. You are just as bad as everyone else.

 
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Thank you. Finally someone understands.

 
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I was just afraid that water would get inside the intercooler and get sucked into the engine. I was just being safe! But i get flamed for being safe and asking a question. Wow what a shitty site.

 
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and i appreciate people like barney and got boost and XSRCivic who are actually here to help out. Because they actually answered my question and have helped me get a better understanding. Unlike the rest of you ****ers who just flame away because your dumb.

 
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Dude, dude. Calm down.

The only reason people are like "wtf" is because of the questions being asked. You know that saying in elementary school, "The only dumb question is one you don't ask." That doesnt apply anymore.

If you have a turbo + swapped civic, its almost a prerequisite to know a little bit about how turbos, intercoolers, etc. work. Personally, I'm wondering how your car didn't explode yet, but thats neither here nor there.

 
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