Re: cooling intercoolers

[audidudi@mindspring.com (Jeffrey J. Goggin)]

>I was thinking of a similar setup, but with a water mister. Let the
>evaporation of the water cool it down.

I've done this on my 200q by using the original windshield washer reservoir
bottle/pump (the one behind and below the passenger-side headlight) and
rerouting the output line to spray through a mister nozzle that was
originally intended for one of those backyard mister systems.  I trigger it
with a pressure switch that was taken from an industrial HVAC system (they
were throwing them away by the boxful when the office building I work in was
refurbished) that is set for 4 psi ... I also mounted the washer bottle from
my wrecked 1987 5k behind the wastegate in the empty bracket on the firewall
and rerouted the lines/wires accordingly.

The whole setup is somewhat Mickey-Mouse but it looks OEM (mostly because I
used OEM parts) and works quite well here in the desert southwest.  On
average, I have to refill the bottle every third tank of gas ... I'm also
thinking about hooking up the level indicator to an LED inside the car so I
can tell when the bottle's empty but haven't gone to the trouble yet.
Besides, I usually open the hood and check the oil level around that time
anyway so it's not a big deal ... in fact, it worked so well last summer
that I'm thinking I will install a similar setup on my Ur-Q over the winter.

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