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Unread 08-18-2003, 11:13 AM   #9
iroc409
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ingenuity my dear watson . you can always fit in an intercooler. although, generally speaking, intercooling isn't used very much with supercharging. i think this is why vortech started offering water injection, because they were too lazy to offer intercooled supercharger systems

is this a centrufigal (SP?) suptercharger, or a whipple or roots style blower? in most cases the whipple and roots styles do not use intercooling. i've seen it once i believe on a roots blower, and it probably wasn't as effective as it could be. but, basically it's relatively difficult to build an intercooler into a roots/whipple design.

but anyways, as far as an intercooler goes, yeah, i'm sure you can fit one in there. even greddy and those guys will build custom ones. they can make them pretty small, and still fairly efficient. you might check them out. but, good intercoolers are fairly expensive.

also, if you get too perplexed about mounting, check out a toyota celica alltrac (90-93, US version). i used to have one, and i loved that car. it was an awesome car. it had a fairly small intercooler in a pretty interesting location. if i'm not mistaken, the 2nd generation rx7's use the same mounting location as the toyota, but i can't remember right off the top of my head.

just something to think about. i'm not sure if you'll start seeing a bunch more of it, i don't know of a single car in town that has it here. but, i imagine if it does start to become popular, it's probably because it's typically an awful lot cheaper than a good intercooler. those can easily run $2000+.

i'm sure your car runs great with it, and i don't really blame you for using it. it's just, i personally wouldn't want it on my ride, except for maybe a secondary system for racing only. you didn't specify so i'm not going to judge, but i'd truly hate to have to drive a car on the street that would _depend_ on it for safe operation. takes the fun out of cruising
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