Air to water intercooler

[Chief Gilly]

Anyone on here use an air to water intercooler core besides Vortechs $1200 piece? I'm looking on Frozenboost and Votion and others but can't seem to find the intercooler core that will support 400+ HP and still fit. Also what size radiator did you go with? I want to use Vortechs reservoir that goes where the battery was and a bosch Cobra pump.
Any input would be appreciated.

 

[Chief Gilly]

So far I installed heat exchanger with two 7 inch fans, cobra water pump and some relays for the fans and pump. Waiting for 03' - 04' cobra water reservoir tank upgrade. I'll be using type 8 intercooler from Frozenboost. Piping is gonna be the hard part but we'll see how it goes. My intake temps were a high as 170 with no aftercooler at all. Swapped the stock 3.60 pulley out to 3.33 a/f ratio seems fine on gauges but I won't push it until completion and new tune. Just waiting for more parts to come in at this point.

Pic before I started. Pic of heat exchanger post tomorrow.

 

[Chief Gilly]

Install completed except for Cobra water tank. The inlet air temps dropped from 160*-170* down to 95*-105* without the fans running, with fans running the temps go down into the 85*-95* range. I haven't taken it to be re-tuned with the changes yet so I can only say, at this point, seat of the pants wise it feels stronger. I figure the only reason for that would be no timing is being taken out for hi temps. I have only taken it up to 5-6 psi of boost because I didn't have it re-tuned yet and I'm not putting my motor's fate in an A/F wide-band gauge.
Probably spent @ $1000 at this point. I can port the inlet and outlet of the intercooler a bit, then I get a re-tune.

 

[ROUSH 4]

Install completed except for Cobra water tank. The inlet air temps dropped from 160*-170* down to 95*-105* without the fans running, with fans running the temps go down into the 85*-95* range. I haven't taken it to be re-tuned with the changes yet so I can only say, at this point, seat of the pants wise it feels stronger. I figure the only reason for that would be no timing is being taken out for hi temps. I have only taken it up to 5-6 psi of boost because I didn't have it re-tuned yet and I'm not putting my motor's fate in an A/F wide-band gauge.
Probably spent @ $1000 at this point. I can port the inlet and outlet of the intercooler a bit, then I get a re-tune.

Nice work..........