Water to Air Intercooler Questions
I'm going to be installing a water to air intercooler to aid my vortec supercharger on my truck and I have a couple of questions.
1: Do I need to run a surge or overflow tank? (my hx doesn't have any cap provistions and I'm running a vortech style water tank {mini fuel cell})
2: What do I run in the system; ie. distilled water with water wetter, coolent, engine ice.. etc?
My intercooler setup is a Vortech kit pieced together.
Thanks,
Matt
05 Gmc Sierra RCSB 5.3 - Vortech V2 Intercooled, BBK 80mm TB, Edlebrock shorties, Custom built 3" Catback W/Borla XR-1, GM Built HD 4l60e w/ transgo shift kit, power servo and corvette shift pin, Yank 2600 Stall TC, Belltech 2/4 drop, Doetsch Shocks, 3.73 gears w/yukon lsd
if you fill the water tank through a lid and it's higher than the xchanger, then the setup is ok.
there needs to be a vent (the fill hole on your water tank) to release all the trapped air as you fill the heat exchanger.
it sounds like you have it set up fine.
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You will want a tank of somesort as your fill point. It needs to be rhe highest point in the system. Also when running your lines try to keep them smooth no kinks, with limited up and downs do no to create any place for air to get trapped. The intercooler inlet should be on the low point and the outlet at the hi point. Again limiting air pockets.
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First thanks for the replies, I should be good to go then with the vortech water tank.
One question tho, I would like to mount the water tank behind the coolent reservoir tank but for it to fit I need to remove the fender support bracket. Is this ok for every day driving or should I fabricate up a new bracket that will fit around the tank? I would prefer not to relocate the battery.
Turbo6.0, I'm using basically a gm vortech intercooler kit, but I got a heat exchanger that is about twice the size of the standard vortech hx and the intercooler it's self is a vortech unit with a modified inlet side tank and pipe. I've just kinda pieced this kit together over time from my friend e-bay.
05 Gmc Sierra RCSB 5.3 - Vortech V2 Intercooled, BBK 80mm TB, Edlebrock shorties, Custom built 3" Catback W/Borla XR-1, GM Built HD 4l60e w/ transgo shift kit, power servo and corvette shift pin, Yank 2600 Stall TC, Belltech 2/4 drop, Doetsch Shocks, 3.73 gears w/yukon lsd
I thought I would post up the results. Mind you I did this all for under $250...thank you e-bay and a few of my friends! I still need to clean some things up but other wise I'm happy with the results, as of right now I'm seeing 5* to 10* below ambient temp (65*) IATs while at speed, before the inter-cooler I would constantly be well above 110* when it was only 70 out!
05 Gmc Sierra RCSB 5.3 - Vortech V2 Intercooled, BBK 80mm TB, Edlebrock shorties, Custom built 3" Catback W/Borla XR-1, GM Built HD 4l60e w/ transgo shift kit, power servo and corvette shift pin, Yank 2600 Stall TC, Belltech 2/4 drop, Doetsch Shocks, 3.73 gears w/yukon lsd
Looks good. No bracket is needed to be replaced. You do loose some ridgedness there but I have ran like that before.
We have a tank that fits there and that support stays in place.
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Yeah saw your tank after I got mine, maybe I'll give my self a x-mas gift this year...Originally Posted by Turbo6.0L
05 Gmc Sierra RCSB 5.3 - Vortech V2 Intercooled, BBK 80mm TB, Edlebrock shorties, Custom built 3" Catback W/Borla XR-1, GM Built HD 4l60e w/ transgo shift kit, power servo and corvette shift pin, Yank 2600 Stall TC, Belltech 2/4 drop, Doetsch Shocks, 3.73 gears w/yukon lsd
post up some pics of my air to water on my old vortech ls2/ls3 setup just before i got all the hoses routed, worked very well!! kept my iats below ambeint at all times! droped it well below when i iced it down too! great job on your setup by the way!
this one kinda shows the heat exchanger i used, found the bigest one i could on ebay, it even drops below the bumper a little too!
Last edited by chargedLQ4; 10-29-2010 at 10:08 AM.
07 4WD SCSB, LQ9/LS3 w/LS7 cam, LS3 intake,built 4l80e conversion,custom rear mounted TC78 turbo setup, ported exh. manifolds, devils own meth kit, WTA intercooler, aeromotive f-pump,True Trac, stock 3:42's, "new design" gray 20" american racing torque thrust ST's, 3/4" drop kit, painted grille, hids, welded roll pan, iss wing, Factory ss front bumper, TBSS SW, custom pioneer/infinity system with 10" JL sub
I made my meth tank to be the support bracket as well. not a good picture I know, only one I've got just now.
ChargedLQ4 , thanks man your setup/truck looks great too, how does having the MAF after the supercharger affect tuning, etc? Is there any benefit to doing so?
05 Gmc Sierra RCSB 5.3 - Vortech V2 Intercooled, BBK 80mm TB, Edlebrock shorties, Custom built 3" Catback W/Borla XR-1, GM Built HD 4l60e w/ transgo shift kit, power servo and corvette shift pin, Yank 2600 Stall TC, Belltech 2/4 drop, Doetsch Shocks, 3.73 gears w/yukon lsd
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