Anyone install an intercooler on there Banks boosted idi? Ive been pondering about this and was thinking of replacing the pressure chamber with a carb blow thru hat like this one and fabbing up some piping.

 

Nobody huh?

 

It'd work...

I'm looking at doing an intercooler this spring/summer in my truck. It's really not hard to do, I did a front mount setup in my Thunderbird a couple years ago. You can make all of the pipes out of exhaust pipe & mandrel bends.

 

All I can say is it looks rather short.

This is installed on an ATS turbo system, and if I remember right the inter cooler is a hypermax unit.



When the ATS filter box is installed you can see why the extra height is needed.



So I guess the correct answer for you would be it will depend on what you have for an air filter and piping to the turbo.

Guess I might as well add the last picture of the completed job.



If I remember right that truck was a 92 and the guy cut the vent holes in the bumper and used the Power Stroke trim around the holes he cut for a nice finished look.

 

Dave, what was the seat of the pants difference with the intercooler(i know just adding an intercooler wont do much for you without more fuel)? Towing difference?

 

Not my truck.

My snow plow has a 1/2" thick steel plate from frame rail to frame rail and top of the bumper to 8" below the bumper.

So the plow bracket would have to come off for the intercooler to get any air.

The way my engine runs when the temps are below zero, I wish I had a place to put one.

With my ram air setup, and running the fuel setting I have on my engine, I can black out headlights at 80 degrees running 20 PSI boost.
At 10 below zero the black is almost completely gone with all other factors being the same.

So if I could drop the air temp into the engine by more that 90 degrees I would guess another 50+ HP since it is burning all the extra fuel I can inject the way my IP and injectors are set right now.

At temps that cold my EGT's also drop a couple hundred degrees at WOT, so it would be great for towing.

Do remember, I do have internal engine mods to run that much boost and fuel though.

On a stock engine I think the claim most intercooler make is 1 HP per 10 degrees cooler the intake air is.
And I have no way of knowing how much the intake air temp changes when the outside air temp drops 90 degrees.