Laminova Water to Air intercooler

I did a search a few times looking for information before making this topic. I am wanting to know any information people may have on experiences using, building, designing a water to air intercooler using Laminova cores.

The best example I have come across is the Chevy Cobalt SS Supercharged used this set-up. There's a few other OEM's that use similar set-up's. The core itself is not a bar/plate style, but a round extrusion with very tightly spaced fins and coolant channels very close to said fins using a high grade aluminum for heat transfer reasons. This is used for oil cooler set-up's as well. They are VERY efficient (they are supposed to go in the actual intake manifold), but require end plates to be made that can seal o-rings, hence why they aren't typical for DIY.

Thanks in advance...

Cadillac used this setup in their early 2000's STS-V on top of a Northstar engine.    The supercharger sits in the valley, blows up through A/W cooled laminova cores then down into the intake runners.    The intake runners were cast into the side of the MP122 blower body, and the laminova cores were housed in a removable top hat.  This guy is a big fan:

http://www.caddyinfo.com/wordpress/tag/laminova/page/2/

Then there is this guy who cut the cast-in runners off, made his own out of plate and tubing and strapped it on to a D3 generation Audi A8.

You used to be able to buy them NOS for $700 on e-bay.

https://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/791726-Audi-A8-4E-4-2-supercharger

In reply to BrianC72gt :

Thank you for the information. I hadn't seen these yet. I have 4 ~16" cores that I got for a "deal" that I want to use. I've known about them for a long time, but this is the first time I've had my hands on one or really even considered using it because they always seemed "out of reach".

There are lots of folks in Australia using these on old-school mechanically injected TD42 diesel engines. By all accounts, they are a fabulous thing, and tonnes of folks have modified intake manifolds as you have suggested. Suggest joining the forums in the thread linked below and start reading/asking questions.

24 pages of reading

Hope this helps!