Has anybody researched the Ntercooler kit from NX? I wonder if it would even be effective since the SS comes w/ an air to water intercooler vs. air to air.

 

ive researched it and it would help becasue it cools ait temps gain should be from 20hp-50hp depending on alot of things but its definately cool, it has to spray on the intercoller itself or on the intake tube there is a special adapter to make it do that, i will be getting one of these for my tubocharged gt-s on my fmic

 

dont get it, its a waste of money!!! it really doesnt make the 20-50hp you saw. you think that by lowering temperatures in your intercooler a few degrees that it will increase HP that much?? a front mount intercooler wont get heat soaked enough for this thing to work that well...... there have been independent tests done that yielded 7-10hp on a top mount intercooler. a front mount will see even less hp increase because its not going from such a high temperature......

 

Anyone know if the ls & sc cobalts have the same throttle body?Nitrous Express want's to know.......

 

what about putting one of these on the after cooler condenser would think that it would cool the fluid

in the system ? just an idea .

 

Ok, a few things to help shed some light on this subject.
First of all, you cant use an intercooler sprayer of any type to cool only the IC because of where the IC itself is mounted, which is in the intake manifold. If you wanted to cool it using nitrous, you would also be injecting nitrous into the engine, and IMHO the cooling effect the nitrous had on the IC itself would be negated by the cooling effect the nitrous has to the air charge itself. Basically you would have really cold air passing through the really cold metal of the IC, and the IC wouldnt have a job to do because the air is already as cold as it can get. Cant take heat away from something that doesnt contain any heat to begin with. Make sense?
Second of all, an IC sprayer is good for one specific circumstance, and that is IC heat soak on a car equipped with an air to air IC. One example would be sitting at the track in the staging lanes waiting to make your run. If the IC is in direct sunlight or if there is alot of heat radiating off of the pavement, the IC will heat up and become less efficient at removing heat from the air passing through it. Another example is heat soak from making repetitive runs one after another without giving the IC a chance to really cool down. Touch the hot(inlet) side of an FMIC after the car its on has made a few runs back to back to back. It will be quite warm, sometimes even hot, while the cold(outlet) side will still be cool to the touch. Now imagine the air inside of the IC as it enters and moves from one end to the other. Its not going to be efficiently cooled until it reaches a cooler point of the IC and finally makes its way out. Thats quite a bit of power that has been lost right there until the car is moving at a good rate of speed and the IC gets a chance to cool itself down. What stilou was saying about it not adding extra horsepower is correct. It more or less gives you back power that has been lost due to heat soak, and then might create a little extra from an overall cooler IC.
So basically the fact is that a sprayer wont create as much power as it will give you back power that has been lost through heat soak.

riz, I believe that installing a sprayer onto the IC fluid cooler would be a waste due to the properties of liquids. Liquid does not transfer/lose heat as fast as air does, so the coolant thats passing through the cooler would be affected very little if at all.

Hope I could help

 

I am with GTPrules on the intercooler sprayer, plus you would be spraying the AC condensor in front of the I/C radiator.

 

No, they don't. Ours connects to the supercharger, the 2.2 connects to the intake manifold.

 

i think its a cool idea either way you look at it