I've been hard at work on a new intercooler setup for the Corrado. An air to water heat exchanger will be incorporated inside the intake manifold. This will make for an extra short intake path for quicker, easier turbo spool. Whats more the higher efficiency of the air to water heat exchanger should allow for a small enough core that will fit with in the space of the old intake plenum.
Here's a rough sketch of where the new core will sit. The remaining section of the intake will effectively become a short runner intake manifold. All of this is aft of the throttle body. So when you're looking at this sketch, the blue bits are the valve cover, the top is where the throttle body goes and the bottom are the runners that curve down into the intake ports of the head. The sections sketched in red will be the custom parts and area where the new intercooler will be. And here are some pictures of the carnage.
3 comments:
Interesting that you're putting it behind the throttle body. How do you think the pressure drop across the intercooler will affect throttle response, or the effective size of your throttle body?
The pressure drop wont be an issue, this is a turbo car afterall. Also, it will not affect the throttle inlet size or its calibration within the ecu.
The supercharged Corvette engines run the throttle body before the charger/intercooler.
If anything I expect to increase throttle response.
Where is the core coming from?
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