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Offline vee-dub90

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Intercooler water cooling..
« on: September 10, 2012, 09:07:51 pm »
Got a few questions about cooling my fmic as I don't fancy running aquamist.. But on Evo's I noticed that they run a standard water spray system for the intercooler which sprays water over the cooler..

Reckon that it would work well on a polo?
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Re: Intercooler water cooling..
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2012, 09:10:18 pm »
it's been done before.  I guess it might be useful to get the temp down slightly for a short burst such as on a drag strip.  It's not going to have anything like the effect of aquamist though. 

It's dead easy to do, others I've seen just use carefully placed windscreen washer jets.
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Re: Intercooler water cooling..
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2012, 09:14:59 pm »
Yeah thats what I thought... I was just going to take a set up from one of the evo's that are being broke in work..
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Re: Intercooler water cooling..
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2012, 09:18:44 pm »
Can work fairly well for the road, water has a far greater capacity than air to absorb latent heat.

Will be a problem on track or drag strip though, they generally get the hump with these systems.

New washer pump & jets from a modern car would probably work quite well.
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