Boost Controller

[Iron Indian]

so, you want to limit boost, in order to what...limit your possibility of detonation?

So, in limiting this boost, you're going to heat the air up by putting it through the blower, then bypass it to be heated up again, with the idea that this will be helpful in reducing knock from too much boost?

Do you see the relatively major flaw in your logic?

To the second issue. If you're not running the intercooler coolant all the time, and then jab the throttle, you have to then completely evacuate all the engine-temp coolant, AND bring the core itself back down to temperature before you ever even begin cooling the intake charge, which is being further heated by the blower. You're going to have an awfully hard time controlling burst knock with such a silly setup, and are going to have to employ one hell of a fat AE table to keep it from popping pistons on downshifts.

I can appreciate trying to be innovative, but stuff like this has been done the exact same way with excellent results for going on ten years for a pretty good reason. It's simple, and it works better than anything else. Put the right size pulley on, and keep the pump running, or you're going to be heat soaking the hell out of everything, and killing the performance of your intercooler.

I agree.

Its not like you're driving some hardcore potential race car that'll gain a lot of MPG by doing this. You won't gain anything there, all you get in return is a car that gets the same MPG that is quite a bit slower. Why have a car second slower when you can have it a second faster without any other effects? Just being honest man...