Intercooling vs chargecooling

[Allan]

What are the pro's and conns of Charge cooling vs an intercooler?

[Coops]

intercooler is more efficient basically, chargecooler used where space is an issue or to retain look of the car, least thats the impression i got

[white16valver]

I always thought intercooling was best/easiest as chargecooling involves running associated pipework and having to cool the liquid etc, but with so little space in the clio engine bay I think chargecooling may be the way to go, unless you're happy with a whacking great intercooler sticking out the front and a chopped up bumper lol

BB run the chargecooler on the Turbo conversions though and it seems to be ok

[Allan]

could fit another clio under the dimma front bumper lol

So no one have a proper pros vs cons then.

How about running both ? too much presure loss?

[Allan]

bloody edit button :P

Hmm well that super charger thread someone starated over on clio16valver, the conversion doesn't run a cooling system, but im sure you could squeeze some more power out of it with either a charge cooler or fmic to get the temps down.
hence the question.

more research needed i think

[Clio_GTT]

Chargecooling reduces temps more than intercooling especially proper jobbies.

Think old air cooled beatle engine vs modern water cooled engine. There's lots of physics behind it but basically air-water cooling is better than air-air. Get your ass on RTOC.

http://www.advancedvehicletuning.co.uk/avtpwr.htm <----- awesome CC's

[Allan]

ah cool thanks for the info :D

[Allan]

its not for a turbo application but ta :D

[MAXIBOY]

hi...

charge cooling is more efficient and more controllable than inter cooling but takes more work and more now how...

[Allan]

what to the BB conversions use, i was reading over on RTOC that the charge cooler setup was 500 notes, is it just an IC with water around it then pumped to some type of rad ?