bottom mount intercooler

[MrFancypants]

Just a data point on the black body emitting discussion. I had Swaintechs BBE coating done to my intercooler on my turbo G20. It is a very thin coating that is applied in a dip process, coating the entire surface of all cooling fins. It works very well. Unfortunately it isnt particularly cheap.

 

You have to be really careful with using paint. If you apply to much you'll completely defeat the purpose of the color change and insulate the intercooler. Im not sure about anodizing but my guess would be it affects thermal conductivity (negatively) -- otherwise it would be done to all quality intercoolers.

 

As for the super space age intercooler idea... sounds interesting but probably not cost effective. It's already hard enough to drop $500-600 on a quality Spearco aluminum intercooler (plus coatings). The big benefit of a smaller more efficient intercooler that hasnt been mentioned yet is less pressure drop between inlet and outlet.

 

 

- Greg -

[veritech-z]

According to Maximum Boost, a thin coat of anodizing has neutral to positive results, but I've never seen data to back that up in the way of numbers or anything.

[Lason]

if this stuff is legit the most you could ask for is getting the air temp to ambient right? I would LOVE to have this stuff in a air-2-water cooler

[veritech-z]

That's where it would shine, no doubt about that.

[rustrocket]

What about graphite foam? Though, it looks like most studies involving graphite foam heat exhangers are all air/water...but, some showed efficiencies of 10,000 w/m-k or more.