Maybe this has been covered before, but, why couldn't you use an intercooler mounted out in front of your condenser be used(even along with an electric fan for lower temps) as a way of lowering the air temperature going into your engine? obviously, the temps would decrease as soon as airflow went across the core, then you could conceivably bump timing up to gain afew ponies or even mpg. If you are sitting still for long periods, heat soak from the rad and a/c condenser may knock things around. But has anyone tried this? any threads? no luck with search.

 

Because it still would not cool beyond ambient.

 

You could cool below ambient, but you would have to spray the intercooler with cold water or N2O or CO2. Just putting it into the air stream won't gain anything. You would be better off building some type of ram air system.

 

and that it would be prohibitively expensive. with intercooler and piping youd run yourself the approximate cost of 1/3 of a non intercooled supercharger

which is also the same cost of pretty much tuner, closed box intake, and exhaust, maybe even e-fans if you get spendy with hte intercooler

 

IMHO high IATs aren't really an issue with a naturally aspirated truck. At stock power levels even 10 degrees lower temps isn't going to make much power compared to other mods.

But there's really no reason why your IATs should be much more than ambient anyways...?

 

Add a cold air intake box much like volant, and then get the manifolds port matched and ceramic coated and you should be getting much lower temps. Oh yeah and e-fans for your engine temps.