IC from a radiator?
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IC from a radiator?
stupid idea....I know. Just wondering why Ive never heard of turning an old radiator into an intercooler? I figured since Ive never heard of it, it must have been thought of and decided against, but I just cant let the idea rest so I need to know why it wont work. lol
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Radiator pushes water through the pipe in one side out the other, if you look at an intercooler, instead of one pipe start to finish you have one side and then the other, and multiple "pipes" so your air flows better, you would see way to much air restriction very high dynamic pressure search this --Bernoulli's Principle-- look at an intercooler, pipe goes to one side the air spread across the whole side of the IC and on the other side it is gathered across the whole side and then piped where it needs to go. my 2 cents, not doctrine.
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so the radiator doesnt pass directly from one side to the other via a straight tube? the water flows around through the tubing first and theres only one inlet and one outlet for all that tubing in the rad? Crazy
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No a radiator and and IC are built much the same just the Rad can't flow enough to be effective as an IC. They both have side tanks and tubes that run directly from one side to the other but the IC has much larger passage ways
