Hi guys at work today was clearing up all the crap from the work shop.

Came across an intercooler for a bloody smart car,

 

Looks very similar to oem zed intercooler or at least could be made to fit.

 

Thing I found cool is it has an electric cooling fan built on them.

 

Maybe just take fan off and bolt it to the zed intercooler and wire them to come on with the engine.

 

I dont know much about tuning exept the cooler the better, so any experts if 2 of them were free would it be worth doing..

Hi guys at work today was clearing up all the crap from the work shop.

Came across an intercooler for a bloody smart car,

 

Looks very similar to oem zed intercooler or at least could be made to fit.

 

Thing I found cool is it has an electric cooling fan built on them.

 

Maybe just take fan off and bolt it to the zed intercooler and wire them to come on with the engine.

 

I dont know much about tuning exept the cooler the better, so any experts if 2 of them were free would it be worth doing..

Couple of pics from Google

 

Forgot to take one of actual intercooler..

 

Couple of pics from Google

 

Forgot to take one of actual intercooler..

 

An Intercooler fan is :

Good - for reducing heat soak from an intercooler in a hot engine bay in low speed/standstill traffic.

Bad - for restricting Airflow at medium-high speed.

 

The Smart-car has a fan on its intercooler becuase its a city-car that spends its time in stop-start traffic. It also spends quite a lot of its time on boost in low speed situations. The location of its intercooler in the engine bay means that it would suffer from heat-soak from the engine at low speed. It also has a very low top speed and runs a small turbocharger, so has less of a requirement for high airflow at speed.

 

The 300zx intercoolers do not really suffer from heat soak due to their location away from the ending in the front bumper with direct frontal ventilation. A fan setup will just restrict airflow to the Intercooler charge-face at speed.

Edited February 28, 201312 yr by Yowser

An Intercooler fan is :

Good - for reducing heat soak from an intercooler in a hot engine bay in low speed/standstill traffic.

Bad - for restricting Airflow at medium-high speed.

 

The Smart-car has a fan on its intercooler becuase its a city-car that spends its time in stop-start traffic. It also spends quite a lot of its time on boost in low speed situations. The location of its intercooler in the engine bay means that it would suffer from heat-soak from the engine at low speed. It also has a very low top speed and runs a small turbocharger, so has less of a requirement for high airflow at speed.

 

The 300zx intercoolers do not really suffer from heat soak due to their location away from the ending in the front bumper with direct frontal ventilation. A fan setup will just restrict airflow to the Intercooler charge-face at speed.

Edited February 28, 201312 yr by Yowser

Ok so no good then lol.

This is why I wait for an expert lol.

 

Well it was worth thinking about.

 

Cheers for the reply...

Ok so no good then lol.

This is why I wait for an expert lol.

 

Well it was worth thinking about.

 

Cheers for the reply...

How can you tell if your intercooler is inefficient or blocked?

How can you tell if your intercooler is inefficient or blocked?

I like your thinking tho terry... I had the same thoughts about re routing the a/c to the air filter for some nice cold air during the summer :-)

 

I saw a vid years ago of someone using a leaf blower to blow air into the air filter (on a vtec I think) and it increased bhp on a rolling road. Spoof or not...?!

I like your thinking tho terry... I had the same thoughts about re routing the a/c to the air filter for some nice cold air during the summer :-)

 

I saw a vid years ago of someone using a leaf blower to blow air into the air filter (on a vtec I think) and it increased bhp on a rolling road. Spoof or not...?!

Still thinking more lol if the fan was on the back of it sucking, surely the cold air was still hit it fine on the front.

Best of both worlds or am I still wrong, wrong, wrong...

Still thinking more lol if the fan was on the back of it sucking, surely the cold air was still hit it fine on the front.

Best of both worlds or am I still wrong, wrong, wrong...

Still thinking more lol if the fan was on the back of it sucking, surely the cold air was still hit it fine on the front.

Best of both worlds or am I still wrong, wrong, wrong...

 

Car radiator works fine,

Still thinking more lol if the fan was on the back of it sucking, surely the cold air was still hit it fine on the front.

Best of both worlds or am I still wrong, wrong, wrong...

 

Car radiator works fine,