That is a good thought, but the charge in the middle of the pipe will still be hot.

One can compensate for the removal of an intercooler by changing fuel type though.

 

Airflow through the pipe is too fast for it to effficiently remove enought heat. Now if you had a double walled pipe that had chilled water through the middle of it per say that may make a diffenece.

 

If you go with a rear mounted turbo likke Remme or myself then you dont need an intercooler. Of course for any boost pressure over 15# i would probably install an ic.

There is also alcohol injection

 

The heat sinked tubing will act like an intercooler, at least it will reduce th eair temp by the time it reaches the engine, but the most effective way is to install an intercooler, it's simple and works.

 

I used alcohol injection in mine and it worked fine. As Richie said, the air is moving too fast for that heat sink to be as effective water/meth injection.

 

Certainly under the hood is a no go, short distance and engine heat, but I was thinking that in a remote turbo setup (since they say the distance itself cools the air) adding tubeing that has heatsinking abilities could only add to that effect. just a thought. of course an intercooler that has much better surface area would do a better job, as well as the other accepted methods.

 

it seems to me like that would be a good concept if your only concern is keeping the exterior of the pipe cool.

I just don't see how it could do much for the air moving inside, unless you had fins inside the pipe itself...but then you would end up with a long cylindrical intercooler, lol

besides, why wouldn't you want to install an intercooler, I think they look sick, I got one installed even though I'm not even at a boost level that requires it yet =D

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Now that makes sense. I guess if you don't have equal surface area on the inside and outside, then any extra surface are on the outside is basically wasted. Unless the air passing over it is supercooled, there wouldn't be much benefit.

You are absolutely right, it does look badass. I can't wait to see your rig fully tuned and in action

 

pretty sick.....

 

Well the day couldn't be nicer so i decided to do the intake routing I've been putting off.

Former setup:
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New setup:

The materials:
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the pictures are hard to see, kinda hard to move around under the truck
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