[radz28]

Here's a small/short conversation about balancing AIR-TO-WATER intercooling and trying to balance intercooling coolant temperatures when routing cooling lines. This was just a brief exchange on another thread with a professional who knows a thing or two about this kind of stuff. Rather than taking away from his build thread, I moved this part of the conversation here, in case anyone else might find value in it.


Hey, Josh'. Can I ask a favor?

Would you be willing to post up some more pics' of your hose routing? I see the one of Page 4 (I think that's the page), and feel like I have a grasp of what you're doing, but I was hoping to verify how you did it.

I'm curious what your opinion is on the coolant distribution between each brick, and how consistent you feel it is or isn't, and if it isn't, if you think that's a big deal. I ask, because I hate the non-symmetry of my blower hose layout, which is, obviously, different than yours. I don't really think I need to worry about the hot-side/outlets for the ICs, so I'm trying to find visual symmetry and see how close I can get the cold-side/inlet hoses to the same length, for, theoretically, the same sort of coolant distribution to both IC bricks.

Right now, because of the OEM HE layout, the cold-side of the HE comes out on the passenger's side, and I have a "Y" that splits to the hoses that go to both bricks. However, the driver's side hose is probably ~ > 2-times longer than the passenger's side. It has irked me from doing it this way, but I hated the "T"s that came with the system, so I found good "Y"s, and rerouted a little bit. There's never been a symmetry, and there probably can't be, but I'm looking for routing similar to yours, and have something in my head that might work. I'm not sure it's worth the effort though. We're only talking a difference in hose length of maybe 24" vs 12", so the effective temperature delta from one brick to the other is probably minimal. I had a methodology behind why I did it this way (for future serviceability, and to be able to use off-the-shelf-hoses if/when I need/needed to replace any of them), so I used basic 90* hoses to connect most everything. It's just bugging my eye and making me wonder now.

I'm just trying to gauge how much I should or shouldn't care as a means to justify this effort. Is this difference in hose length meaningful? Would you mind sharing more detailed pics' of your routing?

Thanks for anything you can find the time to share!