vtech question

[bbka 10+ year member]

you said word for word--->>>"intercoolers don't add power"
so everyone should take there intercoolers off and throw them away? if a stock intercooler is doing the job, why replace it??? thats common scense

Actually he is kinda correct. Example, let's say you have a 2 intercoolers that are the same brand, type, design, etc... one can support 500whp and the other can support 700whp. If your only making 300whp and you have the smaller of the 2 intercoolers, getting the bigger intercooler won't make any difference. I think that's what he was trying to get at about the intercooler not adding power. All an intercooler is intended to do is cool the air down, so of course you car will have a little more power with it, but I wouldn't consider that a power adder. If it was 100 degrees outside one day and 70 degrees out the next day your car would have a little more power, would you consider a "colder day" a power adder? I sure wouldn't lol. Power adders are turbos, superchargers, and nitrous...

Here's a good article on intercoolers, since this thread is already way off topic... http://www.evans-tuning.com/tech4.html

 

[smd4life 5,000+ posts]

Actually he is kinda correct. Example, let's say you have a 2 intercoolers that are the same brand, type, design, etc... one can support 500whp and the other can support 700whp. If your only making 300whp and you have the smaller of the 2 intercoolers, getting the bigger intercooler won't make any difference. I think that's what he was trying to get at about the intercooler not adding power. All an intercooler is intended to do is cool the air down, so of course you car will have a little more power with it, but I wouldn't consider that a power adder. If it was 100 degrees outside one day and 70 degrees out the next day your car would have a little more power, would you consider a "colder day" a power adder? I sure wouldn't lol. Power adders are turbos, superchargers, and nitrous...
Here's a good article on intercoolers, since this thread is already way off topic... http://www.evans-tuning.com/tech4.html

read the post, you misquoted me, read the part you didn't quote

i know what an intercooler does...what it's for, i was simply pointing out that what he HAD said in his first post was wrong

and your getting to technical with the colder day thing... you could say a turbo is a supporter as in it helps the air into the motor, air will go into the motor anyway so it just supporting

 

[bbka 10+ year member]

Whatever dude, misquoted or not there's really nothing to argue. On the 1st page somebody else said "intercoolers don't add power", then you quoted him on the 2nd page and said "yes they do"... That's why I posted my last statement and gave a few examples. Just getting a bigger intercooler will do nothing if yours is perfectly efficient, hence why that guy said they don't add power. If you put an intercooler on a stock civic it will do nothing, but if you put a turbo on it will add power. Oh and using the power difference between a warm day and cold day is a very simple example if you ask me (defintely not too technical), it explains what an intercooler does pretty well. But yeah a turbo is a power adder, it forces air into the motor (it doesn't just help it), but I'm sure you know that. If you go to the track and the classes where they allow power adders, they would consider that a turbo, supercharger, or nitrous.

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

whatever. vetech is ****. they make fords go faster.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

Although not the same, it's still similar in practice. You don't get independant intake and exhaust valve timing, but you do get an advanced cam timing at low rpms and retarded timing at high rpms, with a nice, smooth, variable retardation inbetween.
All about getting more air in the engine when it's most needed, especially for those engines.

xflow heads leave a lot to be desired

i'd kill a man for a drake 16v head for the ABA block

those things flow to like 8 grand and make almost 300hp n/a