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This is a custom elbow we build for a few customers. It fits the Whipple 3.4 supercharger. No inlet restrictions here.
Nitrous plates are available. One mounts between the blower mid-plate and intake for that direct port nitrous injection. This will raise your blower a min. of 3/8 of and inch. 1/2"-2" are also available.
TrickPerformanceProducts can build a nitrous plate behind the throttle body or between the upper intake and supercharger for your stock eaton blower. Just give us call to see what we can do for you and your Lightning.
This elbow is not designed to fit stock application
area. Some modifing of your vehicle maybe neccessary for this itme to fit.
TrickPerformanceProducts are for off road use only!!!
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TrickPerformanceProducts solves the HI air temp problems! We are the only company building NEW SINLGE pass intercoolers that bolt right in. If you are pushing your Lightning harder; and higher boosted levels trying to get more power. You know about HI air temp 2 numbers. Since the Lightning first came out people have been trying to solve the problem with larger heat exchangers, larger water tanks, hi volume water pumps. Then Lightning owners started swapping to larger and larger blowers. All of these did help some; but did not address the real problem, the stock intercooler. It was never designed to control more heat then a stock engines horsepower. Stock intercoolers are a dual pass tube fin design. If you look at your core from the side, the water must travel the top half and then the bottom half before leaving. So what you have is one really long intercooler that is very thin. This will not work for any hi-performance application. To address the problem you must understand how the intercooler works. A water/air intercooler is not a radiator.
Most think slow water flow allows more heat to be absorbed. This thinking is driven from the radiator market. Radiators work differently then water/air intercoolers. Water/air intercoolers are using water to remove the heat, were as a radiator is using air to remove heat. Water can absorb heat faster then air. The larger the temperature difference between the boosted air and the cool water; the better the intercooler works. Example, your boosted air temp is 140degrees. 80 degree water will absorb more heat then 120 degree water. So when you move the water through your intercooler slowly, it might start at 80 degree but by the time it gets through the intercooler it's 120 degrees. Your best cooling absorption happened in the very beginning of your intercooler and almost NONE at the end. So if you increase your water flow; you will still absorbing heat in the beginning like before but now getting more absorption before getting to the end.
For any air/water intercooler to work at its peak performance you need to
have the largest temperature difference between the heat source (boosted air)
and the heat absorber (water). There are several ways to achieve this (temp.
difference) goal.
* Larger intercooler, this increases the surface area and water area with
in the intercooler.
* Larger heat exchanger. Allows for a larger amount of absorbed heat to be
removed prior to going back through the system.
* Higher volume pump. Moves a higher volume of water through the intercooler.
* Larger water tank. More volume takes longer to heat up.
* Adding ice. This gets the water as cold as possible.
* Larger hoses, increase amount of water flow. Usually added when going to
a larger pump
*TrickPerformanceProducts single pass intercooler. More cooling channels,
larger water channels, larger water inlet and outlets, fully aluminum construction.
TrickPerformanceProducts Single Pass Intercoolers combines many of the improvement
features that the stock unit does not have. Being a bar and plate design we
increased the water flow area. Stock cores (tube and fin) use very small water
channels and are straight through and are limited in coverage area. So water
is only making contact against the walls of these very small tubes. Our water
channels cover the complete vertical measurement of the core and have turbulent
fins to keep the water swirling. Both the vertical measurment and the turbulent
fines; increase the water contact area and flow volume with in the water channel.
Single pass intercoolers move the water through the entire core one time.
Not half the core then the other half like a stock cores. Being a single pass
intercooler this takes full advantage of cold water through the entire core.
This moves the maximum amount of heat per water cycle out of your boosted
air.
Our cores are 100% all aluminum tig welded construction. No epoxy, no glue,
no stamped parts etc. This intercooler is one large heat sink that works!
Customer Testimonial: "Vehicle
setup:
Built aluminum block
JDM stage 3 heads & cams w/ port-matched lower intake.
whipple 2.3 w/ chickenears stage 3 intake
Trick single pass I/C
Fluidyne dual pass H/E
T/F I/C Reservoir
93 octane pump gas
15# Boost
19* of Timing
Made 518rwhp / 577rwtq with ambient conditions of 94* and 33% humidity
This performance shop I use has been working on and tuning Cobras and Lightnings since their inception and have never seen a Lightning run this cool in this heat. Normally a lightning with my setup on the rollers would have IAT2s of about 140* after back to back pulls. With the Trick I/C temps typically stayed below 100* except on the 3rd pull when it briefly went above 100* but came back down.
When cruising @ 45mph IAT2 temps will be no more than 10* above ambient and as speed increases that difference decreases. @ 60mph its 6-8* above ambient. So i.e. if its 95* ambient, vehicle is traveling at 60mph... I'll see IAT2s at about 102*.
My cruising temps were observed using an Interceptor scan gauge."