Intercooler assembly
AssigneeWhipple Superchargers, Inc.
InventorsDustin E. Whipple, Yehoram Hofman, Garrett Wayne Bright
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Abstract
A dual, dual-pass intercooler assembly for an intercooler supercharger system comprising an intercooler lid mountable to a supercharger housing; a pair of intercooler cores coupled mountable to and within at least one of the intercooler lid and the supercharger housing; wherein the pair of intercooler cores configured to receive and cool supercharger air upon a first pass through the pair of intercooler cores and receive and further cool the supercharger air upon a second pass through the pair of intercooler cores prior to receipt by an engine.
Claims10
A dual-pass intercooler assembly for an intercooler supercharger system, comprising:
- an intercooler lid mountable to a supercharger housing;
- a plurality of intercooler cores;
- wherein the plurality of intercooler cores configured to receive and cool supercharger air upon a first pass through one or more of the plurality of intercooler cores and receive and further cool the supercharger air upon a second pass through the one or more of the plurality of intercooler cores prior to receipt by an engine, the plurality of intercooler cores are mounted to and within the intercooler lid to form a pre-assembled intercooler lid assembly mountable onto the supercharger housing to install the intercooler lid assembly, and heat exchange medium connections disposed inside the pre-assembled intercooler lid assembly and connecting the plurality of intercooler cores together for heat exchange medium transfer between the plurality of intercooler cores, inside the pre-assembled intercooler lid assembly, and wherein the plurality of intercooler cores include a larger central rectangular intercooler core with opposite sides and a pair of smaller side rectangular intercooler cores along the opposite sides of the larger central rectangular intercooler core.
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