Originally Posted by
Chip
On boost, when driven fairly hard, what are you getting up to for intake temps?
46 on my nova, which seems not too bad, I know its higher than ideal, but I dont consider it a big issue either, charge coolers typically struggle to get quite as low as FMICs so I expected similar as obviously the water will always be above ambient so the core in the charge cooler always will be too.
Whats everyone else getting and how do you feel about it?
hMM - sure it will always be slightly higher than ambient, but if your ratio of "water in the radiator" to "water surrounding the core" is good, then it shouldn't be much above ambient. On top of that the water should be more efficient at cooling the core than air anyway.
I never really had any issues with my chargecooler back in the day.
Suppose all I am saying is that I wouldn't see the fact I had a chargecooler rather than a front mount as a reason my on boost charge temps would be higher.
Cheers
RW