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Originally Posted by carbonBLUE
.... just read the part that says INTERCOOLER they have done it
http://http://www.toyotaracing.com/t...ercharger.html
EDIT: its not as good as traditional intercooling but i would gladly buy it cause i dont want to route a bunch of piping personally... plus its plug n play |
True, true. Sorry, we don't get any fun parts over here in AU. To me, having an intercooler like that attached to the supercharger would make things a bit annoying. Not only is it going to suffer from a lot of heatsoak due to basically being mounted on the engine, but I'm guessing it'd restrict a bit of access to other parts of the engine. You'd really have to have the water/coolant circulating quickly to get around this and would probably be better off having a secondary cooler/radiator somewhere else to get that coolant back to ambient. Not saying it wouldn't work, just saying that the intercooler would probably be fairly inefficient for the extra cost and complication it would add.
Meh, that's what I say, haha.
To me, a car that is just slightly underpowered is probably going to be the most fun. Why? Because you can always push the car right to the edge and it's much easier to absolutely master the power you do have. It's really easy to become unstuck with a high power car (not only resulting in less fun, but potentially costing you if you hit something!), but with a lower powered car you fearlessly fling the car around because you know precisely how it's going to react, and it's much easier to correct mistakes.
Another way to think about it is around throttle control. Let's say that to be competitive, you need to apply a certain amount of power to your car to quickly get through a set of twisties. Let's compare a car with 200HP, and an identical car with 500HP. Assume that it's revs are close to the point of peak power too, for simplicity sake. With that extra power your throttle isn't going to be more sensitive, so you need to find that precise point of power from a larger range. Again, for simplicity, let's say that the car needs to be around 120HP with a range of 20HP (so between 100 and 140HP). For the 200HP car, this is a range of 10%, meaning your throttle will only have to be within 10% of the correct throttle position, however, with the 500HP car you need to be within 4% of the correct throttle position.
I know, lots of assumptions need to be made (same weight, same suspension, same everything except the power) but basically, if you have just enough power for what you want to do, it's going to be easier to precisely control the car than having too much power.