How Do you Plum your Intercooler?
 

In a application running lets say a Whipple or
Blower shop intercooler (traditional
Roots style blower) What are the different ways
to feed the raw water to the intercoolers?

Schematic before the intercoolers:
1. Water Pick up through bottom of Hull
(Surface Drives)
2.Into Gill Strainers
3.Then to suction on single stage raw water
Pump.
4. Out of pump into Gil Oil cooler then to
Trans coolers/ Power steering cooler
5. Then into engine block 540ci
6. Then out of water restricter (No Tstat)
7. Into water jacketed headers
8. then dumped out of through hulls.

Please respond with you opions and Ideas.

My intercoolers are plumbed diirectly to water pickups on the K-Planes or as an alternate to the sea strainers. They are water-pressure fed only. This way there is no "cooling" at low speeds, which can cause fuel to puddle in the intake.

Tee after the raw pump. Feed one side thru existing loop. Feed other side thru intercooler. Dump intercooler water on Bravo drive (or out a thru hull if surface drive).

If any of the coolers is doing a marginal job, then you can move them from the engine loop to the intercooler loop. If you have block high water pressure issues, then you can play with the size of the restrictor at the tstat or you can place a restrictor in line at the block entry.

If not enough water going thru the motor, then you can play with sizing restrictors OR add one in front of the intercooler.

You can also add a low pressure restrictor to the intercooler line that restricts water flow to it at low speeds but once line pressure rises (above 5 psi) it opens for proper cooling flow.

It's all a matter of balancing flow for your particular application. If the discharges are visible, you can monitor everything you need with your eyes.

I do the same .

Another thing to consider. plumb the intercooler outlet over the drives. we did this with a Procharger setup.