Hey guys I live in ny and the weather is horrible as it was 0 last night and currently 7 degrees over here. I started my car this morning hearing a high pitched sound which I assumed was my intercooler pump. I'm running a short stack ic. I pop the hood and check my lines and the green anti freeze is frozen. I do not know what the installer did as mixture I'm assuming 70 30 but is this bad for the intercooler? Bad for the engine? What do I do?

 

Yes it's bad, will burn up the pump and if any kind of moderate throttle happens charge air temps will go through the roof and goodbye engine, get the car indoors until it melts and drain/add straight antifreeze to correct mixture for them temps!

 

Turbo unfortunately I don't have an open garage to warm it up but as long as I don't drive it until I add anti freeze it should be ok? I knew that sound was my pump I hope it doesn't go.

 

The pump maybe froze as well and if it is it will burn up fast. Also i hope the ic core (if froze inside it) don't crack... this is bad all around...

 

Great how will I know if the core cracks? Do I need to take off the supercharger? Wow I can't believe this

 

If it cracks it will either leak internally or externally... either way you will know. That's crazy it froze... maybe pull out the ic pump fuse or disconnect it and let the engine idle only and hopefully the engine heat could melt what ever is froze....

 

Wow I'm better off leaving car off and sit till the temp above 30 degrees but if I disconnect the pump still the heat from the sc on the cold ic core would make it crack

 

Yea it's hard to say if the extreme temp change would cause to crack or not.... this is some tough luck man

 

Sorry to hear... Might as well just let it thaw out and see what happens... I guess you could try to disconnect a fitting to try and drain the IC, but the weather isn't exactly getting warmer.

Hopefully nothing bad happens after the thaw, just make your coolant more concentrated.

 

Exactly right. I don't have room in my garage unfortunately and the weather is horrible I'm off tomorrow so I'm going to try and melt it somehow I'm calling my mechanic as we speak and seeing what he reccomend I just hope the core doesn't crack and the pump doesn't burn out . It's gonna sit there till this weekend when it will be 35 degrees than it should be easier to melt