induction intercooling

just had a thought could you use an intercooler to cool the air recieved by a filter like a turbo setup e.g air filter connected to intercooler then connected to throttle body? would this be effective or would the flow rate of air be so little from just a filter?
 

skymera

Brutal Honesty
just had a thought could you use an intercooler to cool the air recieved by a filter like a turbo setup e.g air filter connected to intercooler then connected to throttle body? would this be effective or would the flow rate of air be so little from just a filter?
Useless.

Compressed air by turbos gets hot hence why people run intercoolers.

Running an intercooler with just an air filter is pointless..because it's fresh air anyway.

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Guy

Has gone over to the oily side...
Club Member
The action of a turbo compressing the air can raise the air's temp to 180+ c, dunno if it would do much with a n/a setup?!
 

pollyp

Club Member
if you read about intercoolers they are basically heat "exchangers" allowing the difference in heat energy between two fluids to equalise via heat transfer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_exchanger

newtons law of cooling states "the rate of heat loss of a body is proportional to the difference in temperatures between the body and its surroundings"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_law_of_cooling#Newton.27s_law_of_cooling

since the filtered air flowing through the intercooler is exactly the same temperature as the external air flowing past the intercooler fins, there's zero temperature difference hence zero heat transfer and does nothing other than add weight and restrict the airflow more
 
if you read about intercoolers they are basically heat "exchangers" allowing the difference in heat energy between two fluids to equalise via heat transfer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_exchanger

newtons law of cooling states "the rate of heat loss of a body is proportional to the difference in temperatures between the body and its surroundings"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_law_of_cooling#Newton.27s_law_of_cooling

since the filtered air flowing through the intercooler is exactly the same temperature as the external air flowing past the intercooler fins, there's zero temperature difference hence zero heat transfer and does nothing other than add weight and restrict the airflow more
You really need to get out more. :)
 
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