boostedbird
Registered User
I've been working with a friend of mine that owns a sheet metal plant here in bountiful. One day after seeing how much heat my roots was making with the 15% overdrive on it and reading corky bells book on supercharging he said that a proper shroud could reduce intercooler temps by 20% or more. Well i started to think about it and even with an intercooler fan our stock intercoolers just arent doing the trick. True a front mount would be the best answer but i can't afford 1000+ for one right now and I know alot of you cannot either. So I designed a kick butt shroud for my car and it fits right onto the stock intercooler looks great and with the fan on my car temps went down by 31 degrees after I swapped intercoolers both runs were done on the same road same car same boost and within 30 minutes of each other meaning that the pipes and car were still quite warm for the second run the improvement may have been better had i let it cool down first. No ice was used no water and the pipes were the same and the intercoolers were both stock with the same type of fan. I also did notice that my car felt better and faster especially when under full boost at higher RPMs. The thoughts were simple even with the puller fan air can still get around the intercooler and it will take the path of least resistance by adding the shroud you are not giving the incoming air any other path than through the intercooler thereby reducing heat and adding more power. Not only that but where our intercooler sits in the stock location is about as crappy of a place to sit as you can get. Ford had a similar idea with the little rubber shroud but it is acually useless as I had this on with the first run air can still get by it and it acually covers some of the core reducing the cooling effect. I have 8 made right now and if anyone is interested please Pm me and I can send you out one at a cheap and fair price.