Do any of you guys with hair dryers run intercooler fans on your air-to-air intercoolers?
This is mainly a daily driven MM, it has an ice-vex intercooler, haven’t measured it yet, but I'm pretty sure it could be a bit bigger.
It's got the Paxton novi 1200 that is similar to the DR setups, it was actually pieced together from one of his kits.
I am using the SCT iTSX to monitor temps and on a nice 60-65 degree day, after a few WOT bursts the IATs got up to 95ish pretty quick. Also in normal non-spirited driving on the way home after interstate driving and light traffic I seen low 90ish degree IATs as well. In both cases the temps didn't seem to be reduced much with normal driving as I would have imagined it should have.
I had a T-bird SC back in the day with two factory ICs welded together, which doubled its depth but still had small surface area. I used 2 small intercooler fans pushing and pulling on it, because it got crappy flow across the fins and had little surface area. I was more interested in keeping temps down in traffic. I don’t recall specifics, but I know it helped the IATs I logged I that particular setup.
The IC I have in the MM has a lot more surface area than that old setup, so I am wondering if an IC fan would be more of a restriction once up to speed for this particular setup?
Or do I just need a bigger IC?
I'm worried that 30ish degrees over ambient are going to be a problem when its starts getting hot and humid in another month.