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can i hook up an intercooler with a blow off valve with out the turbo for a civic hatch if possible?

just wanted to know if it was possible to hook up an intercooler to a stock engine with the blow off valve i just want to be able to hear that blow off valve

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  • 1 decade ago
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    YES you CAN!!!!!!!!!!!

    don't listen to any of these negative type people who are haters. if you can dream it, you can have it....i know you can do it, because i beleive in you. "YOU CAN DO IT!"

    it will add 20lbs. of dead weight and an extra100hp of parking power. the whistle is gonna have to be done by mouth though, just take a deep breath, pucker up your lips and blow hard to make the PEWFFFFFFFFFFF sound. it's gonna sound so COOL!

  • 1 decade ago

    Agreed, that is EXTREMELY stupid.

    It won't do anything at all for you. And anyone who knows anything about cars will immediately identify it as a fake, and you'll get mocked all the way home.

    A BOV doesn't have anything to do with the intercooler. When you off the throttle in a turbo car, pressurized air is still flowing through the charge tubes towards the intake manifold. But since the throttle body is closed, that air turns back around and tries to spin the turbo backwards, which over time causes damage to the turbo. A blow off valve releases that pressure to the atmosphere or recirculates it to prevent compressor surge. So the point is: without positive pressure (boost), a blow off valve would just stay closed. Your car, being n/a, operates under vacuum at all time. No positive pressure. So you wouldn't hear it.

    As far as the intercooler is concerned: an intercooler lowers intake temperatures. It's great for turbo cars, because when you compress air, it gets hot, and the intercooler helps cool it down before it enters the cylinders, which helps prevent detonation. a n/a car won't really get any benefit from it.

    If you are looking to look like an idiot, yes, you can duct tape in an intercooler and BOV. But you won't fool anyone.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    well if u wanna look like an idiot, go for it. its a waste of time, money, and weight. you wont benefit at all from it, actually ur just adding weight so ur technically losing power. so dont do it

  • 1 decade ago

    Rice

  • Shram
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Hell no it is not possible. You need to go jump off a bridge.

  • 1 decade ago

    i think you should get a whistler tip

  • 1 decade ago

    no. why do people still do this crap to their cars?? its a waste of money.

  • 1 decade ago

    no

  • 1 decade ago

    ugh....

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