Anyone test boost before and after IC?
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Anyone test boost before and after IC? Just wanted to see if any one has measured how efficient their intercooler is. Any tests of intake boost vs pre intercooler pressure. What brand and size intercooler? How much is to much of a difference?
Alex
Alex
We run a 250$ cx racing air to water. Ysi blower, 18.5psi at the intake, 860hp, 22psi at the outlet of the blower. More than happy with this intercooler for the price, once we change a few things on the car, it should make 1xxxwhp and this 250$ intercooler is still kicking out 60* iats at WOT
Pretty simple test with a turbo is to reference your wastegate from the compressor housing and record your boost levels. Than reference your wastegate from your intake manifold and record your boost level. This is a quick and simple way to test the pressure drop. Not exactly sure what intercooler I have but it's a 4" thick one I ordered through Josh and I only see a 1 psi difference.
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It would take a pretty bad IC to be very restrictive. I tested my old setup and pressure drop was less than 2psi.
However, it didnt cool for ****.
New larger core and again pressure drop was similar, except the difference it made to temps was huge.
Overall efficiency is more important than any 1 aspect. And the most important aspect is cooling ability. If it has a good ability to cool the air, then more than likely it will have adequate flow.
However, it didnt cool for ****.
New larger core and again pressure drop was similar, except the difference it made to temps was huge.
Overall efficiency is more important than any 1 aspect. And the most important aspect is cooling ability. If it has a good ability to cool the air, then more than likely it will have adequate flow.
on my old mustang it was only a 1-2psi drop, intercooled/non-intercooled with my blower..... and that was with a cheap ebay intercooler. Tested it on the track with and without the cooler back to back days with almost identical DA's.... First run without intercooler was the same as what I ran with the intercooler but as it heated up it just dropped off where as intercooled it was consistent all day long.
