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looking for a certain type of air-water intercooler... - 300D50 - 07-10-2011 I know I'm not crazy, and I HAVE seen these. It's an air-water intercooler that looks like a chunk of regular charge piping, but has a bunch of straws that the air flows through, that are surrounded by the water. I saw it on a website a few months back, had a black background iirc. I'm not looking for one of those useless "we took a chunk of square core and shoved it in a section of tube" deals, or the box ones. I also know it's not a laminova core. I kept telling myself I'd bookmark it, but never did... RE: looking for a certain type of air-water intercooler... - tomnik - 07-10-2011 I think I saw something like that on LandCruisers (Australian manufacturer). The 4.2 l also have a cross pipe over the valve cover like the 60x. Tom RE: looking for a certain type of air-water intercooler... - 300D50 - 07-10-2011 these were aftermarket, aluminum, and iirc anodized red or orange on the outside. I'll look into the landcruiser setup EDIT: Found the ones I think you're referring to Tom, those are made by "PWR" and aren't the ones I was looking at before. EDIT: anti-double-post concatenated these, they were two separate posts... Found em! Expensive as hell as well... RE: looking for a certain type of air-water intercooler... - dieselboy - 07-11-2011 Look like a transmission cooler on a big truck lol. But anodized. RE: looking for a certain type of air-water intercooler... - yankneck696 - 07-11-2011 By your description, sounds like a marine style heat exchanger. I am not sure how efficient it would be for cooling charge air. It's meant for cooling fluids. They sure flow good, though. I thought of using one years ago & talked to the diesel tech at the boat yard I worked at (formerly a jet/diesel Rolls Royce man) & he told me it would "Have to use bloody nitrogen to be worth the space".... Yeah, he is british. Sorry, computer was slow to load the pic. Ed RE: looking for a certain type of air-water intercooler... - 300D50 - 07-11-2011 I found em, the anti-double-post just shoved the posts together. Edited the post for clarity. RE: looking for a certain type of air-water intercooler... - yankneck696 - 07-11-2011 I don't really think that unit could be too efficient. The restriction at the inlet & having the body at the same diameter as the charge piping? With a marine heat exchanger, the diameter more than triples so as to not restrict flow.... It sure is pretty, though... Check out http://www.sen-dure.com/ for ideas, products & ratings. The company you are referring to probably uses one of Sen Dure's cores & makes their own housing. I would think that some form of disruption of airflow to allow for all of the air contacting the surface area would be nessecary for cooling efficiency. Now, a marine heat exchanger might cool well if you use your air conditioning direct or to cool water flowing through. Ed RE: looking for a certain type of air-water intercooler... - Captain America - 07-11-2011 I know exactly what your talking about Walt. My buddy made a few as prototypes and wouldn't give me one haha (I wanted one for my car). Yeah you look into one side of it and it looks like a bunch of small straws inside. I wish I had a picture of it. I seem to remember seeing one around on the net too.... The design is similar to the Ford EGR cooler on the 6.0. RE: looking for a certain type of air-water intercooler... - tomnik - 07-11-2011 this is what was in my mind: http://www.turbonetics.com.au/3121/index.htm Tom RE: looking for a certain type of air-water intercooler... - 300D50 - 07-11-2011 Hm, just realized I should look into getting the supercharger fit onto the side of the block first, or at least running the calculations...