Originally Posted by MILD THUNDER (Post 4492779)

Anything you can do to cool the charge down, is a win.

Icdedppl has 10-71 blowers on his 540s. Hes underdriving them, making 6 or 7lbs of boost. We were out 2 weeks ago, running the boat. I watched his intake air temps while he drove. The intake temps, were 135ish at full throttle, and most of the rpm range. They dont even begin creeping up when you hold the throttles down for a while. No intercooler on his setup.

135* isnt all that bad. Most on the internet hear the word "roots" blower, and immediately start talking about 200+ intake air temps, usually supported by zero actual data, jusy what they heard. The style and size of the blower has alot to do with it.

Overall, im not super impressed with my superchiller intercoolers. My intake temps are in the 110-120 range, which for a roots is not too bad. Realistically, they prob knocked off 20-30 degrees from my iat's. I got a good deal on them from a friend, but not sure id invest 3 to 4g on them for my setup if i was buying new. The superchiller also puts a big restriction in the intake tract, which requires you to speed the blower up to overcome that.

Id love to see what the intake temps are , in say, a non intercooled 177 blower setup.

Originally Posted by mike tkach (Post 4493365)

i may be wrong but i don,t think detroit uses the same coolant to cool the intercooler.when you say detroit,who are you talking about?

Originally Posted by 14 apache (Post 4495630)

Yes some do and some don't deepens on the HP and who did the motors. Have a 6v92 in my shop uses engine coolant to cool charge.

Originally Posted by 33outlawsst (Post 4495657)

I worked @ Detroit Diesel back in the day, Im trying to find an old worn out blower housing to use as a mail box