Crazy idea for intercooler mounting location
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From: San Diego , CA Double Yellow DirtBags 1985..Z51..6-speed
Lose the wing, the front end, the scoop, and the wheels, and it's a nice looking vette. 
I have a question...
With boost, is it really that helpful to have the scoop forward?
Would a rearward cowl induction work 99% as good? Even with a cowl, the base of the windshield is a high pressure area, just less so. It doesn't seem like a blower would really need the ram air, after considering how much drag and windnoise that scoop would cause.
I have a question...
With boost, is it really that helpful to have the scoop forward?
Would a rearward cowl induction work 99% as good? Even with a cowl, the base of the windshield is a high pressure area, just less so. It doesn't seem like a blower would really need the ram air, after considering how much drag and windnoise that scoop would cause.
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From: San Diego , CA Double Yellow DirtBags 1985..Z51..6-speed
Originally Posted by bogus
I always thought that the area near the cowl was low pressure?
(at 180 mph anyways)
Last edited by CentralCoaster; May 24, 2005 at 03:02 AM.
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From: Modesto CA
Originally Posted by CentralCoaster
With boost, is it really that helpful to have the scoop forward? It doesn't seem like a blower would really need the ram air, after considering how much drag and windnoise that scoop would cause.
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From: San Diego , CA Double Yellow DirtBags 1985..Z51..6-speed
Okie, I'm a dummy Tim, yeah point it forward.
Those FEAs (finite element analysis) aren't mine. Too bad he didn't put mirrors on the car, or put the ground in there. I'm actually doing some heat transfer FEA at work right now though... Really cool stuff.
Maybe I should model my brake rotor heat xfer?
Those FEAs (finite element analysis) aren't mine. Too bad he didn't put mirrors on the car, or put the ground in there. I'm actually doing some heat transfer FEA at work right now though... Really cool stuff.
Maybe I should model my brake rotor heat xfer?
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Originally Posted by TIMSPEED
- Mount the intercooler directly on top of the superram. (Think WRX Sti hood scoop/intercooler setup)
Some other things I would like to point out. Picking up air above the exhuast manifolds/headers is not the greatest idea.
Having the blower mounted on the drivers side, and running pipe to the passenger side, then back to the throttle body seems like a piping mess as it has to cross over itself maybe a bit more then 1/2 the way.
Why not go front mount intercooler?
Or turn the super ram plenum into an Air to water intercooler, like the votech mondo coolers design for the 5.0's?
with the throttle body mount on the drivers side, you could get the piping from the blower to the throttle body real short. intercooling takes place after the throttle body.
of course you have the whole water resivour and cooler to deal with.
