Water Charge Air Coolers (WCAC)

Engineered for motorsport and high-performance vehicles. Configurable to optimize pressure drop and heat rejection.

Water-to-Air Cooling for High-Performance Engines

The Conflux Water Charge Air Cooler (WCAC) is engineered for high-performance systems that demand consistent power, seamless integration, and proven durability. Designed with advanced additive manufacturing and validated through computational fluid dynamics, it transforms charge-air cooling into a measurable performance advantage, balancing power, reliability, and cost-cap compliance.

High-Performance Automotive

Conflux WCACs provide performance vehicle manufacturers and OEMs with tailored thermal solutions that enhance powertrain output, extend reliability, and optimize packaging. The configurable design allows seamless integration into complex vehicle architectures, enabling consistent cooling performance across endurance road use, delivering measurable efficiency gains and long-term durability for hypercars and performance road vehicles.

Motorsport

In competitive racing, cooling defines competitiveness. Conflux WCACs can be tuned for extreme powertrain demands where stable charge-air temperatures sustain lap-after-lap performance. Combining lightweight construction with precision configurability to manage pressure drop and heat rejection, teams gain the balance of speed, reliability, and compliance to cost-cap regulations.

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Configurable Intercooler Designs for Any Engine

Conflux’s Water Charge Air Coolers are easily adapted to enable seamless integration into high-performance engines. Additive manufacturing enables ports, connectors, and manifolds to be printed directly with the Conflux Core™ , creating plug-and-play connections to both charge-air and coolant circuits in a compact, monolithic design. Internal geometries are fully configurable allowing for customized fluid flow paths.

This design flexibility means faster development, lower overall program costs, and cooling systems that perform reliably in racing and high-performance environments.

Conflux's Water Charge Air Cooler

Why Choose Conflux Water Charge Air Coolers?

Conflux water charge air coolers deliver race-proven thermal performance through advanced additive manufacturing technology. Engineered for automotive’s most demanding environments, these cooling solutions combine superior engineering with production-ready reliability to give teams a measurable competitive advantage.

Adaptable Form Factor

Conformal packaging enables rapid customization for unique engine bay layouts.

Tailored Core Geometry

Cross-flow and counterflow cores to achieve minimum air-side pressure drop without sacrificing cooling efficiency.

Seamless Integration

Adapts rapidly to tight packaging with ports and mounts printed monolithically as one piece.

Embedded with Conflux Core™

The Conflux Core™ is our proprietary internal geometry developed through additive manufacturing. It combines ultra-fine structures and tunable flow paths to deliver high-efficiency heat transfer, controlled pressure drop, and system-specific adaptability. The Conflux Core™ is the foundation that makes compact, lightweight, and production-ready cooling possible.

Maximised Heat Transfer in Compact Designs

The Conflux Core™ is engineered to deliver superior thermal exchange efficiency within tight packaging constraints by leveraging ultra-fine fin geometries for exceptionally high surface area density.

Tailored Performance for System Requirements

Fin density and geometry can be adjusted to balance pressure drop with heat rejection, ensuring consistent fluid distribution and avoiding maldistribution common in conventional cores.

Higher Thermal Effectiveness

Counterflow configurations provide significantly greater thermal effectiveness compared to parallel-flow designs, enabling improved energy recovery and overall system optimisation.

Lightweight, Compact, and Scalable

Beyond raw performance, the Conflux Core™ reduces system mass and volume, creating new design freedoms for motorsport and high-performance auto applications. Its scalable, adaptable architecture forms the foundation for next-generation thermal management.