I have an FMII kit that places the BOV after the intercooler. Anybody have experience with moving it before the intercooler want to weight in on whether it was worth the effort?

 

I highly doubt it will matter. Ive had it in both locations and its just personal preference.

 

You may well be right, and this is the sort of feedback I am looking for.

To elaborate, at least at my typical autocrosses, the BOV cycles dozens of times per run. My thinking is that each time it blows off, that was heat dumped into the intercooler before going out to atmosphere that could have just been vented to atmosphere without heating the intercooler first. At autocross speeds, there isn't a ton of flow over the intercooler to begin with, so it needs all the help it can get. I'm just not sure if it really makes much difference or not. Anyone else want to weight in/agree/disagree?

 

So why would you want to put it before the IC...

 

So that the hotter air on the turbo side of the plumbing never gets into the intercooler? My thinking (maybe wrong?) is that the post intercooler air, even if it back flows into the intercooler, is at a lower temperature than the pre-intercooler air.

 

I think you're splitting hairs lol

 

Well, there isn't much more I'm doing on the driver skill front, so this is what I have left to get faster, obsess about splitting hairs

 

your BOV is between the IC and TB correct?

 

correct

 

okay i see what you're saying. but your IC is close to 90% efficient and it's not going to heatsoak...so it's really mute.

 

run w/i and never have to worry about iat again lol

 

How about going on a diet?

 

I was just joking, part of the fun of racing for me is not necessarily in going faster inherently, but in making the car faster as efficiently as possible. If I could make an improvement by moving plumbing around, that would be cool.

But actually, I've already gotten right on that. I've lost 18 pounds net so far since last fall, including re-losing the weight I gained when my daughter had her heart surgery and complications afterwards. It has been about a pound per week lost, which is, I'd argue, a good rate for being sure to keep it off.

 

the short answer:

buy an EFR*

*just don't expect it to last

 

You mean for the built in recirculating valve? that seems a big excessive. I'm pretty sure it would exceed what I paid for the whole car too.

 

Why do you say it isn't going to heat soak? IAT reads 34C warmed up in grid, over 45C after one run, over 50C after a few runs back to back to back. Seems like it is heat soaking pretty substantially to me. That is with the temp threshold turned way down so the fans both run constantly. I pulled a hose off and it didn't seem oily inside the IC, but i guess it might need to be cleaned....

 

well if you want the valve on the hotside, you can't get any closer than that

 

So I've thought a bit more about this, and I think I'd rather have the BOV on the cool side of the intercooler to keep the flow direction constant, rather than on the hot side to keep the heat out of the intercooler.