ravencr

What if, using some sort of intercooler, water injection, CO2 cooler, etc., we could lower the supercharged air temps by 50-75 degrees without modifying the Supercharger itself, and it was totally bolt on? What if it allowed us to successfully run a smaller pulley? What kind of power differences would result?

Me and another member, Johnny, have been talking for some time about figuring out system to cool the supercharged air down, but not have to drill or fabricate anything on the supercharger itself.

Ha anybody else been thinking about this? If so, what kind of plans were you considering? I'm figuring with the smaller pulley and a cooling system, HP figures could easily push over the 300 mark. I know I'd love to have that kind of power.

Anybody else have any ideas?

Chris

RedRunner_87

You guys could put a intercooler inside the intake tube to lower the temp of the air.

ravencr

I'm not visualizing it! Can you explain in more detail?

Chris

Cmar

How about a front mounted intercooler to cool the air charge to the supercharger and then you could have a water mist spray aimed at the front of the intercooler to further lower the temp...

ravencr

Well, the problem is how are you going to cool the air coming in the S/C with a intercooler? The water mist is ok for cooling the Intercooler, but part of where the air is going to be cooled in relation to the intake tube, MAF, etc. is the challenge.

Chris

Weasy2k

After some thought and a response for gadget about this...cooling the air INTAKE would do very little to performance as that S/C is really heating things up to the point where the ratio of cooled air going in the intake to actual cooler air past the s/c would be to far apart ot matter....that is why i caught on to this spacer idea and am already talking with my local performance shop to see what they can do from a professional stand point. I will be bringing it to them once everythign in my truck is installed (s/c and all fuel related items) after the dyno they will take a look at it...

Oh on the topic of intake....i am in the works of developing a new intake tube that would maintain stock airbox but flow better.....

ill keep everyone posted on my developments...

ravencr

I thought that may be the case, so there's basically two things we need to focus on then:

1) A Water/methanol mixture injection system that's bolt on
2) A holding tank that the temperature of the mixture can be reduced to just above it's freeze point regardless of the outside temperature

Those two combined could make some drastic differences in power output. The main problem with the spacer is the room underneath the throtte body. There's not a lot of room for injectors sticking out there, but maybe with the extra height of the spacer, the injectors may just fit perfectly and may be best achieved with a a fuel rail type for the top fo the injectors.

Chris