22-03-2012, 12:40 PM
Dave Wrote:If you get the right turbo for the job in the first place there should be no need for an intercooler at all in theory. Your not stretching the turbo to produce heat. Just so happens we all use petrol turbos and push them to 2 bar so they heat like mad. So we just bang up the boost even more to compensate. There is no right or wrong here because one turbo will be on boost and fill fmic piping way before another and one turbo will boil way before another.
How would that work? Surely all turbo's are squeezing the air, making it hotter, regardless of how big they are? One thing I did notice though, is that the IC and turbo really seem to restrict VERY low down power/torque! When I drove my car with no intake pipes (just EGR and mani) it pulled much better up hill at idle...and it sounded epic lol!!
Oh and on another note......SMICs FTW.
