Intercooler Idea 6.0L EGR cooler

[camboscams]

So the shop I spend most of my days at we see a lot of 6.0L powerstokes. And i was welding the ends closed on an egr cooler tube to turn it into a delete  pipe today and i wondered if they would have enough air flow to use as an air to water intercooler on our engines. Does anybody have any experience or even know what i'm talking about?

[bajacalal]

Just looking at pictures of these, that looks kind of restrictive... Yes, it's a small diesel but still... maybe for a 1 cylinder engine it would work.

[camboscams]

Yea i kinda had a hunch that it would be be on the small side

[burn_your_money]

Run 2+ in parallel. Assuming you are getting them cheap/free of course.

[camboscams]

I wondered about running 2 in parallel the only problem with that is, finding two good ones, one is cute but it might be a stretch to get two. I wonder if i cut the two ends off and welded some larger tubing to the ends it looks somewhat of a free flowing core

[vanbcguy]

For comparison's sake, this is the size of the AWIC I'm running in Jezebel:



Looks like you'd need at least 3 of those EGR coolers to get close to the same size - not saying it needs to be that big though.  That's just what I'm running.

[camboscams]

Hmmm good point! I'll have to rethink my idea. Or I'll just have to get an actual air to water intercooler...

@vanbcguy if you don't mind me asking what roughly did you have in your total setup?

[theman53]

http://www.siliconeintakes.com/index.php?osCsid=61ede2c748c37e075f81a3ef1cce299e

I haven't bought an I/C from them but I have bought the T bolts, small diameter hose, and the couplers from them and it is A1 first choice quality. So I would expect nothing less than that from the intercoolers they have.

[vanbcguy]

Hmmm good point! I'll have to rethink my idea. Or I'll just have to get an actual air to water intercooler...

@vanbcguy if you don't mind me asking what roughly did you have in your total setup?

If I was doing it again I'd leave out the electric fan I bought as part of the kit.  I didn't have any room to use it without REALLY pulling the stock radiator back.

All told... Shipping was a bit much, I hadn't sorted out my Pt. Roberts address yet so I ended up paying for delivery to the door  here in Vancouver.  I think that added about $150 to my order.  Complete to my door package was about $700ish including the shipping and brokerage fees.  That's all the aluminium tubing, silicon couplers, t-bolt clamps, the water hoses, upgraded pump (I went with the Bosch one, figured it'd feel more at home), the radiator and of course the unused electric fan.  I bought a little more tubing than I needed to as well.  I wanted to make sure everything would work first time, cheaper than having to order a bunch more stuff and pay all the fees again.

The intercooler itself was a fairly small portion of the cost - you can check the price on the Silicon Intakes link above, they're who I bought everything through.