Boondocker ebc and a air to water intercooler on a silber turbo

[jdetoy]

I am putting a bd ebc on my 2011 silber turbo on an 11 pro. My question is about the bov and if I need it any more. The ebc controls the boost from the waste gate and I can remove my bov from the boost box and seal it up? Also I am putting a sir to water intercooler on from frozen boost. How big do I make the heat exchanger. I looked at hm's and they are about 2 feet is that overkill or just right. Here is a rear cooler I am making for the sled thing just do another one up front. It is just a little under 2 ft. Thanks guys

 

[jdetoy]

Just need to burn it together but I think this will be big enough . Want to mount it in the from of the tunnel a little concerned about clearance because I am running a 2.6 power claw

 

[gmustangt]

Leave your BOV , your blow off valve is your blow off valve and your wastegate is your wastegate. Two completely different components.

That cooler is a good size. Clearence shouldnt be an issue assuming your putting it beetween the excisting cooler, as those coolers sit down a bit already.

 

[jdetoy]

Thx, I called bd and ask them this morning and they said I could and should get rid of the bov. I don't know enough about it to have an option. Can you please explain a little for me.

 

[gmustangt]

The wastegates purpose is to divert "waste" exhaust energy away from the turbine wheel, if this was not done the turbo would keep spinning faster and faster till a max boost point was reached. You don't wanna go there lol.

The bov is there so when the throttle plates close the compressed air has a point of escape, instead of working its way back to the compressor wheel. It is possible that the reversion can cause "stalling" of the compressor wheel. So the compressor wheel does not have to work against a reversed flow.

Not sure why BD would tell you not to have it...

 

[akMcat]

As I understood it a properly setup and sized BOV eliminates compressor stall and or surge, increases the life of your turbo, and will improve on/off throttle response by letting the turbo stay spooled up when you let off the throttle.

 

[lorne1176]

I'm thinking you should have your spigets welded coming up off the opposite side of the extrusion on your cooler at about a 60 degree angle. That way you can drill 2 holes in the top of the tunnel between the fuel tank and the bulkhead for your circulating hose.

If interested I've already got a Silber air box converted to W/A in exchange for your old Silber box and $500. Also have resivoir to fill W/A system to include.

 

[jdetoy]

That cooler is one for the rear of my sled for the cooling system, just finished it tonight. The new one will be the same but they will come off the top in front of the gas tank like you said. I will see what 60 degrees looks like when I mock it up. Send me some pics of you set up I will think about just buying yours. My plan was to run one of their long flow ic from the turbo across the chain case and put the inlet on the back of the boost box and just weld the hole on the front shut.IMG]http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/04/gena2y6a.jpg[/IMG]

 

[lorne1176]

Sorry, missed that in the original post that being the rear cooler. I will PM you some pics of the air box.

 

[tfry]

where did u get the material to make the heat exchanger? and also which air to water cooler are you using off frozen boost? been wanting to air to water intercool my 12 silber kit for a while now and think im finally gonna just do it. just need a little more info for the customizing

 

[adam8781]

love DIY stuff, which intercooler are you running from frozen boost?

Link us

 

[lorne1176]

Check out Bell inter coolers.

 

[roughrider99]

Are you sibler guys doing closed loop water to airs?, I just finished converting my water air intercooler to standalone as it was designed to run off engine coolant for consistent temps instead of cold air