i decided to build a see-through intercooler for my toyota supra
in the first video i built the intercooler mounted test it
but unfortunately things didn't go so well when i tried to run only 15 pounds of boost
now i'm back to upgrade it strengthen it and then hit the street to do a real test run with
some boost after that i'm gonna get the car on the dyno run some even higher more serious boost
to see what's going on inside of the intercooler when running higher boost pressures let's go
i'm all done modifying the see-through intercooler i added supports on both ends of both tanks i'm
hoping that's going to allow the intercooler to hold the pressure because each side of this tank
at 15 psi is holding back a thousand pounds of force so it's quite a bit of force i don't know
for sure that it's gonna work but if it doesn't work and it fails it's gonna be quite a show
i'm fairly confident that this is going to hold the pressure but i am scared that it's
going to blow up under the higher boost so i'm going to take it easy on the way to ams because
if it does blow up i want it to blow up on the dyno at ams and not on the street here we go
perfect so with this hub dyno does the car still need to be strapped down in some cases the front
might such as like super high horsepower cars but doesn't need to be strapped down no not at all
everything's ready to go i want to just start slow i'm going to start at the lowest boost and
just start cranking up maybe just by throttle we can just do a static rpm test at 5000 rpm
that'd be a lot easier to control a boost throughout the run literally use your pedal
or your foot to control the boost with the throttle i'm actually done i'd set up the
rpm just now so what he just explained and what that means is that no matter what we
do it's going to stay at 4000 rpm in this case our throttle is going to be our boost controller
because the load is going to stay the same the whole time that's absolutely perfect
i'm going to start with a really low boost then i'm going to do the fog machine first in the air
filter and then in the inlet of the turbo which i think is going to look really cool then i'm gonna
start cranking up the boost i guess until it fails you ready to go let's see what happens
Alright hit it
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we're all done with that run and i think it looked pretty cool it was definitely cool
how that air exited the tank on this side but now we have a problem of course the tanks are
starting to get kind of fogged up probably with the glycerin that's in that fog juice
i know everybody's gonna ask me what are you putting in there what is that
this is food grade glycerin the reason i'm making my own fog juice is not only because it's cheaper
but i'm making it more concentrated so we have a nice dense fog that goes into the turbo it's
one part glycerin to three parts water that's regular fog juice so i got to figure out a
way to clean those tanks before moving on and i think i have just the thing in mind
I wish I had a bigger hose
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all right well i cleared up the tanks oh no it made fog in the other tank
you can clearly see that this is the hot side
and this is the cold side because look at how much more condensation is on this side
that's pretty cool that means the intercooler is cooling down that air i'm just going to wait for
that to dry up clear up that worked out pretty well it took almost a liter of water i don't
know how many ounces was this 16 ounces it ate up and it actually worked look at those walls of the
intercooler it cleared things up really well so now we're ready for the next test aiming directly
into the turbo let's go this is going to be 0.5 bar or 8 psi
all right that was pretty cool i could totally see the condensation on the outlet tank right here on
the high speed camera we're gonna do it again this time we're gonna do about 15 to 20 psi and
see what happens we got a temperature probe on the inlet side we're also putting a temperature sensor
on the outlet if the intercooler is doing its job we should see a difference between the inlet
right there and the outlet the main reason that we mounted the temp sensors right in that inlet like
that so we have them right in the middle so that's measuring just the actual air it's not touching
anything else which is really important because that's giving us the actual temperature of the air
and only the air going in and coming out of the intercooler here we go this is going to be 15
to 20 psi got everything all set up high speed cameras rolling 15 to 20 psi four second pulls
i felt that in my chest
all right so that's a wrap that was a lot better than i thought it was gonna be we got to see the
airflow and we got to see the flashing in one tank at least a little bit and one thing i did find
really interesting was the temperature difference between the air going into the intercooler
and the air coming out of the intercooler at one point it was 180 degrees going in and 70 something
degrees coming out with no fan blowing on the intercooler just the air from the fans on the car
that to me was uh really surprising i didn't think that the intercooler was gonna work
that well but you saw it for your own eyes big thanks out to the guys at ams for not only having
amazing equipment but also having the exact hub dyno that i needed to make this test a possibility
this is a little bit tricky to make it work on a traditional dyno so big thanks out to them
make sure you check out their youtube channel they have a ton of crazy car content that's it for this
see-through intercooler episode tell me what you think in the comments below thanks for watching
that's a wrap see you next time and i just want to address why my car looks the way it does
and mainly because this is a street car this is not a show car i built this car to drive it
on the street as my daily driver i wanted a thousand horsepower daily driver that drove
well didn't stall out at stop signs and takes the beating doesn't break down and this is what i got