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[BRN32]

After seeing and reading the comments about the inverted intercooler in the media section, different threads about venting to atmosphere/ recirc. and reading up on turbo shuffle with the stock turbo Y pipe, I started thinking...

How would it work to cut and splice two stock intercoolers to half size (length) and then run the turbo's through them individually with a Y pipe bringing them together before the intake? Could the stock or Z33 MAF's now be relocated after the turbo's ? Would this also allow for atmospheric ventilation with out stalling/enrichment issues?

Would a set up like this be: worse, same, or better? let's get some input!

[Marus92]

So you're saying instead of one intercooler you're running two halves in parallel? It would come roughly to the same heat output since both turbos would be still in parallel and they give out the same heat to the pressurized air. It all comes down to heat, not temperature.

Now that I think about it, depending on turbulence in the single intercooler, you -could- have an increase in inlet air temp but it would balance itself out by having more heat drawn from the intercooler due to the increased temperature gradent between the inbound flow through the bumper.

I think both setups equal in gross energy output. Volumetric efficiency, that's another ballgame. You would get mad turbulence at the Y pipe, that's for sure.

[cortexx]

Kind of like a mitsubishi 3000gt . Each turbo has a SMIC . System is one intake , one maf , splits off through 2 turbos (v6) , 2 intercoolers then recombines into a single TB .

Blow through configs are used on this where the maf is relocated just before the TB , usually using a corvette setup and a translater box , but the problem you have is trying to get the MAF to seal properly , it's not designed to run under boost and they invariably leak causing fueling problems .

[cortexx]

Please explain because temperature in my book is a measurement of heat (or cold) ?

It all comes down to heat, not temperature.

[Marus92]

Please explain because temperature in my book is a measurement of heat (or cold) ?

Heat is energy. Intercoolers (radiators) exchange energy. Temperature is a way of comparing how much energy is contained in a specific body.

Q=C*deltaT which Q is heat and T is temperature. C is the specific energy of the body, which means that a substance with high heat capacity will take a long time to show a temperature gradient.

Edit: Good point on the other cars using the setup. I think it boils down to engine bay configuration. It's easy to see why V block engined corvettes would run parallel intake cooling systems whereas our I6 are easily adapted to a single IC setup.