I usually dont brag but im pround of myself for doing this cause im 20, and never fineshed high school. (im not braggin about finishing highschool though

 

How many of you would be interested in an after cooler (water to air) kit for the whipple? I do metal fab. and have a setup figured out, but lack the funds to do as of right now. If there was enough demand I could produce these for somewhere around $1500. Maybe more maybe less would have to check volume prices. That would include all tubing, water pump, small radiator to cool the after cooler water, and anything else you would need to do the install. Every thing would be made out of alum. and fit under the stock hood.

 

I am interested and weighing all my options right now. Spoke with Whipple today and got the typical 2 month response and was told their setup would sell for around $1500.

I would need to see pictures of a prototype and know exactly what components are being used before a $1500 committment though. That's a healthy sum of money to give someone blindly.

What about selling piping, fittings and other components then allowing people to pick their own intercooler etc.? There could be more takers and more commitments that way.

 

Hey guys METAL MAN is honest. I have seen his work And not to put any ideas down as we are all trying to intercool, but he has got this Whipple aftercooler (air/water intercooler) idea down the BEST so far that I have seen.

 

Brett check your messages. I sent you a pm

 

where do you get your intercooler from metal man?
Also, where do you mount it?

 

ok first off its an after cooler (air to water) not an inter cooler (air to air) and it will be under the hood. the after cooler itself needs no air flow. only the small rad. that cools the water would need some air.I couldn't just sell the pipe works because the end tanks for the after cooler would have to be custom made as they all are.I'm not saying send me 1500 bucks with out seeing something but if i could get a few peps locked in i would flip the bucks for my first one then make a run of however many.

 

would an aftercooler run cooler or would an intercooler? it seems to me that the water in an aftercooler would heat up therefore not making much difference. I have heard of putting ice in the water tank to help out, but for everyday driving, wouldnt the intercooler be a better choice?

 

Actually, the prefix "inter" does not infer that it is air-air and "after" doesn't not infer air-water. The prefix indicates where the cooler is in the system. If you are running two compressors, a twin turbo setup, and you have a cool the charge from one compressor to the other, it is between the two turbos hence "inter." If the cooler is cooling the charge from the compressor to the engine it is after compression hence "aftercooler." So you can only have an intercooler when two compressors are present. However, most people understand that when referring to an intercooler most people are mistakenly referring to an aftercooler.

An air-water intercooler is typically better for a street and road racing applications because there is no shortage of ambient air to cool the charge and the additional weight of water can be of concern to some forms of racing. An air-water, will allow the air charge to get below ambient temperature with ice and is better for drag racing because of the lower temperatures/increased air density and towing applications where high engine loads are seen with lower speeds. The lower speeds at high engine load sometimes prevent enough airflow to efficiently cool an air-air intercooler. Proper heat exchanger sizing is critical with an air-water setup to keep temperatures low.

 

...unless it looks like this