so why dont we just make a 12v chilled reservoir? .5cu/ft super mini freezer with an inlet and outlet. Gotta be a way to do that. Shouldnt be enough to freeze the water because of the flow. May not be enough room in the engine bay (but there might be) but im sure there would be room under the truck or even in the bed if someone wanted too. Just thinking out loud, may not be possible, but would be pretty nifty.

 

There are a couple of setups that use the air conditioning system to chill water for the intercooler.The water is chilled and added to a resorvoir just upstream of the heat exchanger.

 

i remember something about this on the 04-up lightning concept ....

 

I have seen those, but i was thinking of more along the lines of a self contained chiller, sort of like a mini-freezer which would act as the reservoir. I suppose it would be tough to do and keep it that compact what with all the self contained components that would be necassary.....compressor, dryer, evaporator, lines, etc.

 

A lot of guys just add a cooler box full of ice and bypass the radiator.

 

I've thought about that a lot over the last year. My opinion right now, is the water won't be in the cooler long enough to do much cooling. Also....no matter how cool you get the water, you only have so much it can do in the Radix intake manifold. The system as it comes from Magnuson is a fantastic set-up, but trying to over engineer it, (or re-engineer it) only costs money, and time better spent on other things, like cooling the intake charge either before, or after the compressor. I Think that is the better way to lower IAT's significantly. But........that's just my opinion.

 

If you do a search for AC interooling it was disccues in depth, I dont think anyone ever tried it thou.....

 

I had one of these on one of my Typhoons. It was made by Rick Moore. The IAC temps were in the 30's all day long. The A/C worked normal in the truck also. Since I didn't disable the WOT A/C cutout switch, it didn't work during the full quarter, but idling beforehand would get the water temps in the reservoir down enough that they were in the 80-100 range by the end of the 1/4 mile. It was nice.

 

sounds like a cool setup, any detail?

 

The intercooler was plumbed for both freon and water.