UrQ Intercooler Solutions

[Scott Phillips]

Ben.. on the later model cars the intercooler is mounted in front of the
wheel well with louvers in the plastic inner wheel well for airflow. 

I don't know much about the UrQ, or if you have already thought of it
but what about moving the IC away from the "front" of the car. And into
a space in front of the wheel, then make a cold air intake duct to force
air to the IC? 

Just a thought...


Scott '90 V8Q x2

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]
On Behalf Of Ben Swann
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 11:35 PM
To: 'thejimrose'; cody at 5000tq.com; urq at audifans.com;
quattro at audifans.com
Subject: RE: UrQ Intercooler Solutions

Jim,

That doesn't solve my problem with the UrQ, but yes - a fan will help.  

Also, you might consider a water squirt system.  A fan will definitely
help
keep the intercooler "cool" when it is located in a place that does not
get a
ram air effect up front.

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: thejimrose [mailto:thejimrose at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:20 PM
To: benswann at comcast.net; cody at 5000tq.com; urq at audifans.com;
quattro at audifans.com
Subject: RE: UrQ Intercooler Solutions

ok kids here's mr mismatched snow tires and wacky suspension questions
at it again..

so i've been looking into IC solutions for my a4 since it's a crap IC
in a not-so-great location [ahead of the drivers side wheelwell]. so
in the interest of improiving what i have, i've been wondering if
putting a small electric fan behind the ic to pull air thru it
wouldn't make it more efficient?

it works for radiators, right? has anyone ever heard/seen/tried this?
any flow engineers out there have input? always seemed to me like it
might be a really big improvement, of course with nothing but
supposition and inductive reasoning. =)

one one hand, i assume if it worked people would do it. so what i
wonder is, why woudln't it work?

cheers
jim

> Yeah - I may have to set her up with the stock IC and have something
fabbed
> up. Even the stock unit is rather crammed.  It seems like having two
in
series
> may need to be done or put two cores at an angle, or ????
>

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