New style intercooler chiller

[Matt D.]

So I take it a little snow can't hurt the intercooler as long as its melted and somewhat dried off after?
Snow is frozen water. Water doesn't hurt aluminum. I guess I'm confused as to what you're asking.

[At-Least-It's-An-Evo]

hah, mine looks the same! Cold air foreverrr

[rst95eclipse]

Snow is frozen water. Water doesn't hurt aluminum. I guess I'm confused as to what you're asking.

I think he's refering to the intercooler encountering the extremes of heating up and cooling down, causing cranks and possibly fractures in the material.

[Matt D.]

I think he's refering to the intercooler encountering the extremes of heating up and cooling down, causing cranks and possibly fractures in the material.
I'm pretty sure he wasn't looking for a metallurgical answer. :)

[scheides]

actually, I was worried about some of it melting and then re-freezing inside the fins. When water freezes, it expands. If it's stuck inside cracks (concrete, or intercooler fins) it breaks them!

[xveganxcowboyx]

Salt water isn't too great for any metal. Who cares though. Car+Snow=Fun.

[Goat Blower]

If you were running some boost like a real man, that crap would melt right off. :D

[HiImBrian]

I was really thinking about the possibilities of rust and stuff freezing in it.

[mdost03]

Aluminum won't rust. Don't worry about that. Just take a pressure washer to it sometime and shoot through the fins to get all the crap out. Lower setting of course as to not bend fins with the higher pressure.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

It won't rust, but it can still corrode, as seen on most 1G DSM SMIC inlet/outlets. I have never seen the core area of a FMIC really corroded much though.