How to add a used intercooler to a pre-owned turbo or supercharger| Grassroots Motorsports forum |

Carl Heideman
2/5/19 12:35 p.m.

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Remember that salvage yard supercharger build that we chronicled in the February issue? Using pre-owned …

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frenchyd UltraDork
2/5/19 3:59 p.m.

Another way to go to cool the charge would be to use alcohol rich fuel like E85.

It would be wonderful if you could do a pull using the intercooler and then one using E85 without the intercooler. Finally one last pull using the intercooler with E85.

MadScientistMatt UltimaDork
4/27/24 11:51 a.m.

These days, new CX Racing or similar intercoolers are often cheaper than an equivalent sized junkyard piece.

DavyZ Reader
9/9/24 10:22 a.m.

Glad this story was reposted. It's always comforting to see ingenuity like this being applied to solve situations where cubic dollars are not always (or don't have to be) the solution.