With the current hot weather I was just wondering if this is in anyway possible - not sure how it could be done. I've noticed the effects of heat soak when you have to stop for any time. Obviously a front mount or charge cooler would give lower temps. Just wondering if anyone has tried something like this. Could it somehow be cooled using the aircon system? I know its a daft question just a bit bored.

 

Technically yes. Thats what a water spray does anyway - evaporative cooling. A proper refrigeration system would need power and another rad on the front of the car plus some sort of hybrid TMIC. Whether the weight, complication, and refrigeration power requirement would offset any gain I don't know. Very cold air would increase charge density, using Boyles law you could get twice as much air into the engine for the same boost if the temperature was about minus 120 degC. Might be some issues with fuel vaporisation (solidification?) and flame stability just for starters.

 

demotweeks do a cyro kit for tmic, it sprays co2 on to the intercooler thus cooling charge temps. they also do a version that fits in the inlet somewere after the turbo.

 

what about putting dry ice on the tmic.. all you need to do is to fabricate a cover out of mesh to stop the dry ice from droping out... i seen that done on drag car... it cools the air within the intercooler...

 

You can get a nitrous oxide kit for cooling the intercooler. Its just a squiggly shaped piece of copper tubing, with various holes, and nitrous running through it. I believe the company NOS do one, called an N-tercooler or something along those lines.

 

Or just mount a couple of fans on the underside to pull cold air through from the bonnet, wire them to the radiator fan switch or your own dashboard switch, job done.

 

Yeah I was thinking some sort of fan system could work and would take very little power to run. Damned global warming where is the cold weather when you want it!

 

Could anything be done with an air con system, maybe extending the air pipe work into the engine bay and have it blowing onto the intercooler?

Just a daft thought.

 

I recon this should be possible (although not sure how..). Having the AC running on my newage does make performance/throttle response a bit sluggish, however if it was just to keep things cool whilst sitting in traffic/queuing @ 1/4 mile then would work nicely IMO..

Saying this, the STI 8 TM and scoop/undertray on my wrx cools ACT back to +2c to 3c ambient within 30 seconds of >30mph after heat soaking up to >40c and ambient very soon after.

Could be useful on the strip though (but if you're that serious you'd probably go FMIC anyhow..?).