Here's the scoop... The charge cooler is a Spearco air/water part #2-230-B its rated @ 1500cfm (over twice the flow of the Vortech's 5.0 aftercooler!) it comes assembled with the 3inch inlet/outlits, I fabed the pipes by using two 3in 180 degree mandrel exhaust tubing bends, The blower outlet pipe required quite a bit cutting and welding for the correct fit... The TB side was easy... 3in i.d. truck radiator hose to holds everything together, Right now I have it setup as a strip only piece using ice water for cooling, I bought a 6 gallon ice chest (beer cooler) mounted a 750 GPH bilge pump in the bottom (switch mounted in the cab to active), installed 3 garden hose fitting though it, in/out and a drain, Plumbed it all with black 5/8 garden hose that's about it! Pretty simple and should be very effective... I don't have any hard data on it yet but my calculations lead me to believe that it should be worth at least 50hp on my rig, Only time will tell... Right now the trucks having some drivability issues due to the airflow changes/compressor surge at cruise speed, I'm going to add an extra bypass valve between the core and the blower (I think this will fix it)
track times soon to come! ;-)
Later,
Dave