I’ve been thinking about hooking a small trans cooler inline to the coolant fed iac valve of my throttle body… Woulnd’t this cool the incoming air and also make it more densor being that the coolant going through would have a seperate cooler…??? I read an article years ago about a guy doing this to a t/a but totally bypassed the iac to a seperate ice water box. and actually pushed the trans am up to the line and didnt start the car until he was ready to go. Now thats wanting some cold water!!! lol. Any one ever heard of this or no anything more about it? Would it help in every day driving or hurt? My driving is always high speed(70-100mph) interstate driving and i also run nos. please help.-thanx, adam
I have a tranny oil cooler in my radiator… (i bought the wrong one) so can I make any use of this?
if my idea is feasable, sure, it’ll work also… but i don’t know if i’m having an ingenious performance idea moment or a obvious brain fart…lol.-adam
why would you want to run coolant through another radiator, then into your throttle body? That’ll still heat it up. Just bypass the tb completely. Save your money for something else. You’ve got that big ass radiator in the front already.
IF ONE COULD COOL THE HOT COOLANT THAT IS FUNNELING THROUGH THE THROTTLE BODY, BOILING THE INTAKE AIR TEMP. AND DRASTICALLY DROPPING THE THROTTLE BODY TEMP WOULD THAT NOT MAKE A MORE COLD, DENSE , EFFENCIENT INTAKE CHARGE??? HENCE THE WORD…EFFICIENT
no…you’re not going to get that coolant cool enough to drop temp on the throttle body. The air going through the inside of the tb is ambient temp. The coolant will always be warmer than that.
why jsut cool hot water down to less hot. just bypass the whole lot of em already. iacv only helps during idle/start supposedly. so cooling it a little will just give a false reading of the coolant and itll let more air in. sounds good but what good is it only at idle or startup… bypassing them keeps out the hot coolant completely. i dunno just my speculation
but ya what youd want is a separate closed system of cold fluid running through the throttlebody, but keep the hot coolant going thru the iacv (thats if bypassing the iacv makes idle/startup intolerable, otherwise run it through there too)
thanx for the info… i didnt realize the coolant went through just for cold start… you think bypassing the coolant lines will harm the iacv due to running dry? has any 1 tried and experienced any gains from this trick???-adam
Open up the casing and look how the coolant runs through. It goes through a chamber with no moving parts. Therefore not having liquid going into it isn’t going to cause harm per se, but it won’t run correctly.