New invention: The pre-intercooler

[Cañonero]

Well, I found this new thing.

I don't think it's going to cool much, but, for the price, you can try, and, as they say in the page, it looks cool!!.

Pre-Intercooler Cooling Pipe

Anyway, they don't say clearly the length of it, it seems like it's 6" but...


In my case, I have to measure, but I think I could use it to replace this pipe in the 4wdbits intercooler:

 

[RufusTheDufus]

I've actually worked on prototyping this exact thing. I have a couple of those aluminum fin extrusions in the garage. There's a guy that sells them in a clamp-on form for oil filter protector/coolers.

I have a 2003 Yamaha Road Star. They have the oil filter down low in the front of the bike. They are susceptible to road debris. I live on a dirt road so I bought a couple.

I'm not sure how effective it will be at lowering intake temps. The airflow coming out of the turbo is quite fast and I'd suspect fairly laminar. There's little chance for cooling to occur in such a short distance. Consider how little internal surface area there is inside the pipe.

 

[code 621]

Why not use it between the turbo and intake intake? Doesn't seem like it would hurt anything.

 

[RufusTheDufus]

That's where I planned to use it. I ultimately went with a front mount intercooler.

 

[coldtaco]

All I see is a piece of aluminum pipe, nothing special about that

Never mind, I guess the picture you posted is where you where thinking of putting the finned tubing?

 

[Fast Eddy]

Pure BS. The fins will keep the outside of the pipe cool, but they will have very little effect on the air. It would, at the very least, need fins on the inside of the pipe too.

Get one and get a laser thermometer and measure the temps on both sides. I believe you will find the same temp on both ends of that pipe.

I'm using a pair of these, 24" long each, as water coolers in my 6.5 td water-to-air intercooler project.

They are finned inside and out.

I'll post up a write-up and pics next weekend when it's done.

 

[BEE-JAY42]

A product this fine deserves it's own infomercial.

 

[Tapage]

Why not use it between the turbo and intake intake?

I don't think there is much space between a top mounted IC and intake in a 1HD-T/1HZ engine ..

 

[NKP Garage]

It's snake oil, don't bother messing with it. A few important things to keep in mind, some of which have already been mentioned.

* The piping is running awfully close to the exhaust side of your engine, with those fins added you'll be soaking up heat

* Even if the piping were running in a cooler area, the fins help shed the heat that would normally be on the surface of the pipe, that's all fine and dandy, but the air inside is traveling too fast and there is too little surface area contact without fins inside the pipe to make any real difference.

 

[RufusTheDufus]

A product this fine deserves it's own infomercial.

Made me smile.

I'm envisioning the voice overs in the commercial being done by the guy that does monster truck commercials.