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Old May 17, 2016 | 01:17 AM
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water to air intercooler

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It consists of a Water2Air intercooler and a universal expansion tank from the ebay, an electrical water pump from Pierburg and a heat exchanger from Setrab.

Previously, I had an intake temperature of more than 70 ° C in city traffic. The new coolers intake temperature the city are under 50 ° C. To achieve even better cooling, I will protect the lines and the charge air cooler with heat protection from the radiant heat and hot air from the radiator.

Additional I build now even an IC spray as in the STI."


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Old May 17, 2016 | 05:46 AM
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It's nice that you reduced temps in the city.... but how does it perform on the track?

And do you still have AC? Is it colder now?
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Old May 17, 2016 | 07:39 AM
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NICE!

Would like to see additional results, as in weather temp, IAT while cruising, and IAT after WOT pull. My findings with air/water intercooler are on post #157:

https://www.rx7club.com/single-turbo.../#post11804187

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Accuweather.com reported a 56F for my zip code
Weather.com reported a 60f for my zip code

Driving through the city (rush hour) - IAT of 68-70F
Coasting (trans in neutral, engine at idle) - IAT went down to 65F (while going downhill)
WOT pull of 3rd gear & 4th up to 5K rpms (TO4S @14psi) - IAT of 75F
Sitting in traffic (engine at idle) - IAT of 70
I replaced the wastegate springs on my setup, so I am working on the boost controller map. During the last couple of days, we had a 75-80F weather (again, per cellphone accuweather readings), sunny, not humid. Multiple 2nd gear WOT, to 3rd gear WOT all the way to redline, got the IATs up to 150f (by multiple I mean 3-4 pulls, back to back). Once the car is driven "normally", the IAT go back down to what they were prior to the WOT pulls, somewhere around 100-115F on avg for these particular days.

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Old May 17, 2016 | 02:14 PM
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great setup!

the AN fittings looks really nice, as compared to the common hose barb on these setups. nice work

Doing the same w/ w2a intake manifold on current project. water looks to be the way to go!
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Old May 17, 2016 | 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Monsterbox
great setup!

the AN fittings looks really nice, as compared to the common hose barb on these setups. nice work
Agree, which leads me to ask, which water pump are you using for the setup?
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Old May 17, 2016 | 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by KNONFS
Agree, which leads me to ask, which water pump are you using for the setup?
rule 2000 bilge pump, inside a 2 gallon res. cell
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Old May 17, 2016 | 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Monsterbox
rule 2000 bilge pump, inside a 2 gallon res. cell
Ohh man, I know people have been using them, I just couldn't try them for my almost DD car. I went with the bosch unit, although, I wouldn't mind swapping it for a quality pump with AN/NPT fittings!
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