CAI, NOS spray onto IC, Water Injection etc,.... I assume the goal is to have COld Air into the engine. If IC mfg would just weld a thin plate bladder (large surface area with minimum air flow restrictions) with the ends as a pipe leaving ends of the IC (long enough to weld or swage a fitting on it). 1. leave it as it is if not interested in colder air. 2. Add a i gallon container somewhere in the engine bay with a small water pump and fill it up with half ice and half water and feed the IC internal bladder and return back to thecontainer. 1/4 mile 11-14 sec thats plenty of cold air. 3. If ic has several round tubes in it and just have caps at the end. go get some some tubes of ice made to fit intothe tubes and cap it. That good for at least a couple minutes. 4. Or plumb it to your Ac compressor and you got CA when you want it by push of a button inside your car. Ok back to work and stop dreaming
Ill try to sketch and scan one Yes its a hybrid intercooler air and liquid The efficiency of air intercoolers are very poor
what you gotta do is run a closed freon system through the intercooler, nothing like 50 degrees or less flowing through your intercooler everyday of the year.
Just flow a liter of my X-Girlfriends blood through the intercooler. Keep that bad boy below freezing. But seriously folks is this why my car runs like a banchee in cold weather. It's been snarling the past two days I love it!
:rofl: Ooooo...thats cold as ice!!! Ha Ha Ha...thats funny in a few ways...ok...maybe its because I'm tired...
You could always get a proper Spearco air/water setup or something. That way you won't have to worry about ice and refills and whatnot..
Several things like that have been done. Using the A\C to chill the core--Ford did it on one of their lightning prototypes. DEI has a C02 filled "intake bubble" that the air goes around and that chills it as it passes by. I'm not at liberty to discuss which car its going on(supra), but I'm working on a Nitrous setup right now that is fed by a Methanol tank in the back. With just the Methanol my friends Supra is seeing 18 (celcius)degree intake temps on 45 degree days. At some point these frigid intake temps will keep the fuel from atomizing as well but I am not sure what that point is yet,
yeah i'm going to be working on routing AC air on to the core before summer, i figure if it's gotta be on, might as well benefit the IC as well
You could just ditch the Air/Air intercooler and run an air to water intercooler and just run ice cubes in the water at the track. I saw a bolt-in air/water intercooler for WRXs just the other day but I dont remember who makes it.
I would say design a pan or tray with a bracket that clips it on to the bottom or back side of the intercooler it could cover it fully or partially based on clearance. Run thin hollow corridors, lines, tubing or a bladder on top of the tray. It could mimic the pattern of the intercooler or mate to it like a female/male adapter. The bottom of the tray could be heat resistant composite the top of the tray or the lines could be a metal that both retains and transfers cold easily. Have a dump valve on one end of it and a fill valve. Fill it with CO2 or Freon. Or connect a small tank that fits onto the valve or a system where you could replenish the supply without a tank after the cold disipates. The bottom of the tray would actually form a barrier between the engine and the intercooler, the top of the tray would of course cool the intercooler. You could still used forced air on the front of the intercooler. You would not have to run any additional plumbing and the tray could be clipped on and off Based on service or breakage/replacement of the device. Easy install simple design cost effective. If you really wanted to you could tap an ac line as well. Yes I too have a little time to burn at work! Beats fantasizing about woman I can't have (no pun intended)! :bootyshak