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Re: So what happens if your intercooler is too big?
« Reply #15 on: January 28 2013, 08:40:11 AM »
Alradco is working on a new SLIC..

Does anyone have any details on it?
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Re: So what happens if your intercooler is too big?
« Reply #16 on: January 28 2013, 03:51:42 PM »
Women tell me it hurts  :rofl:
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Re: So what happens if your intercooler is too big?
« Reply #17 on: January 28 2013, 05:51:22 PM »
Earl, by your numbers than wouldn't a larger turbo make up for the cubic feet in plumbing?
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Re: So what happens if your intercooler is too big?
« Reply #18 on: January 28 2013, 07:24:09 PM »
Not really. You could put install a turbo off of a locomotive, set it at 14.7#s and the engine could only swallow the same amount of air.  Keep in mind a 52mm throttle body is smaller than a 2" pipe.


Let's say you have a 231CI engine that is 100% efficient. Being a 4stroke that means it would swallow 115.5 CI of air every crankshaft revolution. At 5000RPM it would need 1,155,000 CI (668.745 CFM).  If a 2.5" IC pipeing can flow that with no problem there is no benefit to going bigger. All you'd be doing is adding volume (and weight) that has to be pressurized before the plenum get's pressurized. And as we all know from out studies, there's no power being made until the plenum is pressurized.


As a parallel example, imagine you just talked your girlfriend into anal. Only problem is she wants to be tipsy first and needs a 6 pack to loosen up (giggity).   There's no reason to feed the 6pack girl 12beers when 6 will do.  Why in the world would you purposely want to wait for 6 more beers before turning on the camcorder (the equivalent of turblo-lag)?
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Re: So what happens if your intercooler is too big?
« Reply #19 on: January 28 2013, 09:34:48 PM »
HAHAHAHA!!!!!

I love you Earl.
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Re: So what happens if your intercooler is too big?
« Reply #20 on: January 29 2013, 06:48:38 AM »
I guess I would have to give the beers to my wife so she wouldn't find out about the girlfriend. That's alot of lag.
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