You take the ice off before you make a run. You can lower your intake air temps alot with those kind of tricks. The problem is that by the time you crank your car in staging and make it up to the tree you have brought the engine and the intercooler right back to the temp it was before you put the ice on it. Matt
Oh and if you were to make a pass down the track with that stuff on your intercooler and some of it came off while you were going down said track. They would kick you off instantly.
it works super well. what do you want to know? might be good for shaving about .4 or so. i used to shave .2 with a bag of ice on the stock tmic. your just changing it to a liquid cooled insted of air cooled till the ice melts.
Actually most tracks dont have a problem with dry ice on the IC while going down the track becuase it goes from a solid to a gas completly bypassing the liquid stage so that is no danger with it. It just evaps into the atmoshpere. IVe seen people run with it on the IC
Actually you don't remove the dry ice. It's bonded to the IC and will eventually evaporate. There is no need for any air to flow through the IC. The complete IC is frosted inside and out. All intake air coming from the air filter has to pass right through the frozen IC and thus cools your intake charge for more HP.
This is what I think will happen. Could it be another good something that Alex could test while testing heat transfer to IC from the turbo and abatement methods? It'd be really nice if incoming and outgoing air temps could be checked, but I'm not seeing that as easy or inexpensive to do.
i have posted a question on this before, trying to find out how to monitor air temp at the throttle body
Looks interesting. I dont know anybody using CO2 sprayers but read a while back about them making the engines run majorly lean while spraying.
I'll be more than happy to test this out in my testings. As I said, if anyone is interested in contributing, please let me know. Hopefully, though, this wont cost me all too much. Anyways, some more info...This post is going to be long. So, I think its worth a shot, and I'll add it to my list of anti-heat soak ideas :bigthumb: More to come later,
i like putting dry ice in my toilet and watching the CO2 rise out of it.... it becomes the haunted toilet hnoes:
At the big marching band party of the year we've got a 50gallon cooler of hunch punch with some large chunks of dry ice floating around. Makes a cool effect seeing your drink coming out of the vapor.
Most tracks Most tracks have a problem with anything flying off of your car. It doesnt matter if it turns into a gas or not, the last thing a track official wants to see is stuff flying off of your car. Matt
Hmmm Is that how it works. Wow I had no idea, boy thats a great idea Ill start keeping that stuff in my trunk all the time. Matt Sorry its late and I'm moody.
It won't last long in the trunk. lol Oh and the ice will not fly off the car either. It's frozen to the IC.
If i were to guy some of this for a weekend of racing or something what would be the best way to store this?