To carb or not to carb

Sterling · 03-20-2008, 08:23 AM

"Rx-7s don't allow for flight." is another statement which I'll stand by.
Can you fly one?
Why sure you can; if you drive it off a municipal parking building roof.
Can you figure out how to make an intercooler work with a draw through setup? Yes, of course you can. You can ALWAYS figure out how to make something work, but usually the cost in time and or money makes it prohibitive.
If it were an easy task, it would be the "norm". I'll go out on a limb here and suggest, without even having seen it yet, that the trouble gone through to get it to work in the examples you cite was far beyond the work to have gone the route of a traditional intercooled blow through system. I'll even go as far as to say that the performance gained from getting the draw through to work with an intercooler over using the same components in an intercooled blow through setup, if any at all, probably didn't justify the extra effort in time and expense.
I myself am not partial to either, and I plan on getting a large Camden for a streetported 12a, running my carb, and water injection at high boost. I very much celebrate ingenuity and the work and efforts people make to try new things or improve on things. But for the purposes of illustrative comparison, "no", draw through systems GENERALLY don't allow for an intercooler.

03-20-2008, 08:23 AM	#17
Sterling Premium Vendor Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 74 Rep Power: 18	"Rx-7s don't allow for flight." is another statement which I'll stand by. Can you fly one? Why sure you can; if you drive it off a municipal parking building roof. Can you figure out how to make an intercooler work with a draw through setup? Yes, of course you can. You can ALWAYS figure out how to make something work, but usually the cost in time and or money makes it prohibitive. If it were an easy task, it would be the "norm". I'll go out on a limb here and suggest, without even having seen it yet, that the trouble gone through to get it to work in the examples you cite was far beyond the work to have gone the route of a traditional intercooled blow through system. I'll even go as far as to say that the performance gained from getting the draw through to work with an intercooler over using the same components in an intercooled blow through setup, if any at all, probably didn't justify the extra effort in time and expense. I myself am not partial to either, and I plan on getting a large Camden for a streetported 12a, running my carb, and water injection at high boost. I very much celebrate ingenuity and the work and efforts people make to try new things or improve on things. But for the purposes of illustrative comparison, "no", draw through systems GENERALLY don't allow for an intercooler.