Intercooler Sprayer [Merged 12-7] sprayers ic i/c fmic sidemount smic co2 water

[wret]

Why don't you just run some extra hose from your windshield washer reservoir to your intercooler. You could valve it or splice it back and forth when you need it.

 

[TommyTheCat]

I won't work to give you any power.

The water systems on Sti's and Evo's use nozzles that create an incredibly fine mist. Others have suggested(and while dumb, a MUCH better idea than yours) of using a window washer to spray water. But it just wont help you that much like a true h20 system.

 

[Aikouka]

You'd have to dissasemble the super soaker because there isn't ample space to put the huge Larami guns. Also, I doubt the water would do anything, unless you have one that sprays a fine mist. And you do realize that if you were to pump it 50 times, you'd have to have just about NO water in it. The more water you put in the tank, the less air you can pump into the tank. Now, if you made up a system to automatically inject air (via a tank in the back) or something, it'd be a whole lot more interesting .

And if I remember reading right, the EVO VIII has a water sprayer in the intake manifold.

Even better, you could put a small bucket above your IC and have a rope that when you pull it, the water dumps onto your IC. Or dip your IC in liquid Nitrogen! That'd sure give it a quick freeze. Just don't drop it .

 

[stockmkt8r]

After driving around on the always jammed pack 405 freeway of los angeles for ~45min, I felt my IC and found it incredibly hot. After spraying water with my crazy idea, and sitting in traffic again for another ~20min and feeling the IC again, i found it CONSIDERABLY cooler. Speeds were constant at ~10mph. I dumped approximately 15oz of water on the IC.

Just FYI.

BTW, I agree, using your rear windshield wiper switch to spray on your IC is a much better idea, but I'll stick to what i'm doing now. Flame away!

 

[stockmkt8r]

Originally posted by Tallen
with the $ you spend on a squirt gun (pfffftfttt) you could buy a stock fuel pump and a nozzle from home depot and make your own cool little kit. dont leave out some parts from the shack like wire and a switch.

I agree, the squirt gun idea is not meant to be 'the best' solution. In fact, I'll probably do what you just mentioned cause it'll work better.

 

[GoSpeedRacerGo]

On my old talon I did a better idea.

Disconnect the hose goign to the window washers, buy about 5 feet of hose. Put a T fitting in italmost at the end, and run one side around the driverside of the i/c and the other side around the passenger side of the ic. Go to a hardware store and get the finest misters you can get and hook them up to the end of the hoses, and use some type of clamp to hook them in place. Then, jsut disconnect the wire that triggers the wipers, and fill your resovoir with water instead of washer fluid, and every time you pull your turn signal, water cooling. Not to mention theres a prewired pump and no gun

 

[GoSpeedRacerGo]

Oh and it cost me less than $5.

 

[stockmkt8r]

Go Speed Racer GO --

How'd you wash your windows then? I was thinking this, but I really use my windshield wipers a lot and that's why I did the super-soaker setup. Maybe everytime I need to wash my windows I'll go out and supersoak my windows instead.

Nice detailed post, thanks guy

 

[Tallen]

btw your better off with water/alcohol....so keep that window washer fluid in there!

 

[stockmkt8r]

Can you quantify the alcohol and water mix in terms of percentage?

Thanks Tallen!

 

[alIan]

a water/salt mix would work too, but be careful not to clog the sprayers Anything that lowers the freezing point of water is a good idea, being that if it did ever get to freezing, remember that water is an odd liquid that actually EXPANDS upon freezing, causing tanks to blow up and tears to be shed...

 

[stockmkt8r]

So I ditched the super-soaker setup and hooked up my windshield wiper sprayers to my IC instead. now I use the super-soaker to wash my windsheilds. I must say, this is 10x better than using a super-soaker.

The only ANNOYING thing is that when I go to spray the IC, my wipers go off and smear smog all over my windows. Living in LA has its negatives.

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by alIan
a water/salt mix would work

to corrode just about anything you spray it on.

 

[snotrocketracer]

the CO2 sprayers are preety easy to make.....and the most expencive part is the CO2 tank but that is where your paint ball gun comes in handy. just use the tank from it and some vacume hoseand you got a CO2 sprayer.

 

[-=TWITCH=-]

cost about 4.00 to fill a 10lb tank with co2 VS 40.00 or 50.00 to fill a 10lb bottle with N20

 

[dsmstunna]

what turbo was used with this steup? a undersized turbo would make a much larager difference than a lighty worked turbo

 

[-=TWITCH=-]

I have seen cars make 60 extra HP at the wheels from a intercooler sprayer. Even with a very Efficient intercooler. At the best a intercooler will drop the charge air temp to outside temps. Co2 will drop charge air temps a lot more than that. No intercooler will run 100% Efficiency co2 makes that possible. Its very neat to have 30deg intake temps on a 100deg day!



Chris R

 

[Twisted_93TSi]

Originally posted by BlueMoonEclipse
the NX setup is N2O free....its just a CO2 cooling system

*Grabs a Bat and beats the hell outa your bubble! It's a choice, N2O or CO2. Hence, it's not always N2O free.

 

[need4speed-gst]

well those real tite factory tuned 03 evo lancer turbos come with that mod... they have a switch to where you can spray it manualy or the system does it automaticaly when the car gets to hot..... so they must work.

 

[turbohappy]

Would you be able to use compressed air? Seems like it would work (although maybe not quite as well). Then you could fill it up with an air compressor, or somehow set it up an air compressor in the car to fill it up when you are coasting Compressing the air will heat it up, but it will eventually return to room temperature in the bottle, then being cold when it comes out. I think it could work.

 

[CarTunr22]

Originally posted by need4speed-gst
well those real tite factory tuned 03 evo lancer turbos come with that mod...

They have a alcohol/water injection (window washer fluid from what i have heard) which helps cool the air in th intake. sorry it's not the same as the co2 sprayer.

Originally posted by turbohappy
Would you be able to use compressed air? Seems like it would work (although maybe not quite as well). Then you could fill it up with an air compressor, or somehow set it up an air compressor in the car to fill it up when you are coasting Compressing the air will heat it up, but it will eventually return to room temperature in the bottle, then being cold when it comes out. I think it could work..

Compresed air from an air compressor is usualy around 100 to 120 psi. Compresed co2 is usualy at around 2000psi(some where around there) and the co2 gets a lot cooler than just plain air even if it was just as compressed. sorry i don't think just plain compressed air will yield much of a gain

 

[BlueMoonEclipse]

wrong my friend...the N-tercooler setup of NX is a co2 setup.. other cooling setups using n2o are not the N-tercooler setup (which is advertised by NX as n2o free btw... do some research)

 

[Twisted_93TSi]

Originally posted by BlueMoonEclipse
wrong my friend...the N-tercooler setup of NX is a co2 setup.. other cooling setups using n2o are not the N-tercooler setup (which is advertised by NX as n2o free btw... do some research)

You do some research ...

Turbo applications where nitrous is not an option, NX offers another alternative, the “N-tercooler”. Using either nitrous or CO2 this unit can reduce air inlet temperatures dramatically. In a recent dyno test, a turbocharged Honda, equipped with an NX “N-tercooler ”, increased its baseline by an astounding 52 horsepower! If it makes horsepower, it must be Nitrous Express!

There ya go buddy.

Want the link? http://www.subarupower.com/nitexnter.html

 

[DSMJim]

http://www.nitrousexpress.com/produ...r=&PHPSESSID=ba4e340d646eb9bcdfce1851c0f3198b

 

[BlueMoonEclipse]

doh hehehe

*Smacks himself with a loose camshaft

well i stand corrected the magazine version of the ad reads nitrous free but i guess they do have a n2o one advertised on the web

annyways.....
if you using both as intercooler sprayers...works on same principle....highly compressed gass decompresses thus coming out at a lower temp...if the compresion and the temperatures of the gasses in the bottles are the same they should work theoretically the same depending on density at exit of the intercooler sprayer nozzles(ie. the more separated the gas becomes the more energy it will absorb).....again does wonders on heat saturated IC's ...not on one that is working at peak efficiency though..(thus works great on cars on the dyno with no airflow as has been said a million times i think on these boards)...for further cooling though an internal shot of water or methanol (wich adds the advantage of producing a rich mix for n2o usage) done by an separate fuel injector(s)...

*ps having so much fun so far with the 2.4 conv got no time to think straight....just had my radiator fan go out on me ...fun)