is too much spray bad 4 your car? could it flood or somthin? i was thinking about geting a spray kit 4 my o2 wrx and the cusco sray kit can sray quite a bit, i imagine myself goin nuts. thanx

 

Water doesnt go inside the intercooler.

 

It wont flood as long as you teach your I/C to swim.

 

ahahah SIIIIIIIICK

 

You only want a very light mist, it's the water evaporating that cools the IC. Too much spray and you soak it preventing it from evaporating and that can be counterproductive keeping the heat in.

 

i dont think water is going to act as an insulator and prevent heat from escaping in case you soak it. the heat from the IC is whats causing the evaporation. if you spray just a fine mist for a second or two, its going to evaporate quickly, and therefor would only exchange a small amount of heat. the more you spray, the more will evaporate, provided there is enough heat to evaporate an amount of water.

my concern wouldnt be 'soaking' the intercooler, but where the water is going to run off when it hasnt all been evaporated. i wouldnt want my spray dripping and causing something under the IC to rust.

 

The latent heat of vaporization is larger than the specific heat of water. If you put so much water on the IC that it prevents the ability to evaporate it will be counterproductive.

From the MRT website:

The specific heat of water is 1 calorie or 4.184 joules absorbed to HEAT 1gram of water by 1degC

The latent heat of water is 540 calories or 2260 joules absorbed to EVAPORATE 1gram of water.

In other words the heat absorbed by water is negligible (in massive volume sense NO evaporation) BUT when it is evaporated the benefits are huge.

around 5 to 10 times greater

 

interesting... can you post a link to where you found this info? id like to read more into it.

 

how much and where can you get a intercooler sprayer kit for a 05' WRX?