Pwr Intercooler

[liontamer2]

photo's of piping changes........

[jetute]

nice set up.. will call drew tomorrow... he sent me an email today about it, so I will get in touch... thanks

[Flukey]

  cs123 said:

What advantage is there in fitting either one onto a car running standard boost?

Can reduce heat soak I believe, meaning that you can maintain performance even when the car/weather is warmer. that's my understanding.

Anyone else??

[ktford]

  liontamer2 said:

Hi guys,I have had 2 pwr intercoolers on my ute the first one a stanard fitment one whitch flowed across the bottom of the tank then back through the top    it lost 6 lb of boost,then I met Drew at pwr one of the most helpfull  people I have met,after many fax's and design's came up with one that gained 3 lb of boost still standard fitment, about 2.5 times bigger than standard and works very well for the price.am running around 290 rwkw and looking for more..Greg

hey Greggles, what cooler were you running at the Bank on the 23rd of Jan? any power mods since then?

Scotty

[F6 UTE]

  cs123 said:

What advantage is there in fitting either one onto a car running standard boost?

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The cooler the charged air the more power you will get.

More dense air, more fuel in..

[RAPHOON]

  liontamer2 said:

Hi guys,I have had 2 pwr intercoolers on my ute the first one a stanard fitment one whitch flowed across the bottom of the tank then back through the top    it lost 6 lb of boost,then I met Drew at pwr one of the most helpfull  people I have met,after many fax's and design's came up with one that gained 3 lb of boost still standard fitment, about 2.5 times bigger than standard and works very well for the price.am running around 290 rwkw and looking for more..Greg

Greg,

This sounds great.

What boost were you running when you measured the 3PSI gain?

[liontamer2]

Hi Scotty, I am working on a few mods at the moment eg. 4" exhust,revised plumbing,yet another set of injectors then BOSS edit all before the trip to Darwin.Greg

[liontamer2]

Hi Sixrt, boost was up just over 12psi had it backed of to 10.5 was told that injectors and 3" exhust just not up for more but was getting around 290rwkw,now looking for more.Greg

[cs123]

  bcr01 said:

  XRT UTE said:

  cs123 said:

What advantage is there in fitting either one onto a car running standard boost?

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The cooler the charged air the more power you will get.

More dense air, more fuel in..

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you will also find that you lose boost through the intercooler. I think the standard t cooler looses 2 psi through it, eg 8 pound in 6 pound out?

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so help me out here a bit. If the standard tune limits boost to 6psi where is that measured? Does that mean that the 6psi is turned into say 4psi at the t/b or is it a case of the turbo working harder to make 6psi at the t/b?

[F6 UTE]

  cs123 said:

so help me out here a bit. If the standard tune limits boost to 6psi where is that measured? Does that mean that the 6psi is turned into say 4psi at the t/b or is it a case of the turbo working harder to make 6psi at the t/b?

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As far as I know, most boost pressures are measured at the plenum, because that's the last place it can be measured b4 it goes into the engine... A turbo may be making 10 psi at the turbo, like you say, it might end up being 6psi at the plenum, but that air is hot.. With heat comes detonation ( also with not enuf fuel comes detonation ) . Add more fuel, raise the boost, off you go.

If you can increase the efficiencies along the way, like intercooler and shorter/bigger inlet tract ( pipes ) then the boost at the plenum will be closer to the amount made at the turbo..

More turbo boost = more heat = less efficient.

Bolt an exhaust on, you will make more boost, because your taking a load off the turbo.. ( backpressure ) Then you wind the turbo boost back down. Still the same boost in the end, but the turbo does less work to get there, and spools up quicker in the process, etc etc..