New style intercooler chiller

**scheides** · 01-01-2007

I drove back from up north yesterday through all the mess and ended up with a new way to keep my charged air delivering the coolest air possible to my intake manifold. If we could get this to workin the middle of the of the summer we'd be set!

I left a heater in front of the car for a bit to make sure it all melted off & didn't crack my nice phat intercooler

link to bigger pic:

http://www.scheides.com/gallery/xmas...SC00823?full=1

Matt D. · 01-01-2007

My car looked nearly the same after driving from Eden Prairie back to Roseville yesterday afternoon.

92EvilTalon · 01-01-2007

Wow looks like your car ate some snow. Or a snowbank. hahaha nice way to cool that thing down.....

A//// Guy · 01-01-2007

What is that white stuff? haha jk I love the snow!! Its already melting though.. boo

**Kracka** · 01-01-2007

Nice, thats funny!

HiImBrian · 01-01-2007

I was thinking about driving in the snow yesterday, but isn't that bad for the intercooler? Like dirty snow getting up in therr???

**1ViciousGSX** · 01-01-2007

At least you know how far it heats soaks into the core.

Matt D. · 01-01-2007

Come to think of it, Chris needs to push the car a little more... Mine only had a couple inches of snow on the cold side.

Lose the front plate already!

**scheides** · 01-01-2007

Front plate is staying, it didn't have one when I bought the car and I got pulled over 2x for it (and tint), and that was in the first month I had the car!

Yea wasn't in the boost too much, was just cruising on the freeway...and by cruising I mean about 10-30mph for the last 40 miles or so back into the city.

HiImBrian · 01-01-2007

So I take it a little snow can't hurt the intercooler as long as its melted and somewhat dried off after?

Matt D. · 01-01-2007

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Originally Posted by Mr.98GSX

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 · 01-01-2007

hah, mine looks the same! Cold air foreverrr

rst95eclipse · 01-01-2007

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Originally Posted by Matt D.

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. · 01-01-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by rst95eclipse

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** · 01-01-2007

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 · 01-01-2007

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

**Goat Blower** · 01-02-2007

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

HiImBrian · 01-02-2007

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

mdost03 · 01-02-2007

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** · 01-02-2007

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.