What do you guys think of "iced" intake
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What do you guys think of "iced" intake
Tonight im going to race my car at the local 1/8th mile strip. It is very hot out 90 with 90% humidity.. Has anyone ever tried putting a bag of ice in the bottom of the airbox to cool down the air coming into the engine, do you think this would help much?
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Re: What do you guys think of "iced" intake
Originally posted by CASS98SE
Tonight im going to race my car at the local 1/8th mile strip. It is very hot out 90 with 90% humidity.. Has anyone ever tried putting a bag of ice in the bottom of the airbox to cool down the air coming into the engine, do you think this would help much?
Tonight im going to race my car at the local 1/8th mile strip. It is very hot out 90 with 90% humidity.. Has anyone ever tried putting a bag of ice in the bottom of the airbox to cool down the air coming into the engine, do you think this would help much?
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Re: What do you guys think of "iced" intake
Originally posted by CASS98SE
Tonight im going to race my car at the local 1/8th mile strip. It is very hot out 90 with 90% humidity.. Has anyone ever tried putting a bag of ice in the bottom of the airbox to cool down the air coming into the engine, do you think this would help much?
Tonight im going to race my car at the local 1/8th mile strip. It is very hot out 90 with 90% humidity.. Has anyone ever tried putting a bag of ice in the bottom of the airbox to cool down the air coming into the engine, do you think this would help much?
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Re: Re: What do you guys think of "iced" intake
Originally posted by Sin
There's no point. The surface area of the bag of ice, and the rate of air consumption wouldn't make any measurable gains. In order to get enough surface area for heat exchange, you'd need a heat exchanger like a rad or intercooler type exchanger, somewhere in the intake stream.
There's no point. The surface area of the bag of ice, and the rate of air consumption wouldn't make any measurable gains. In order to get enough surface area for heat exchange, you'd need a heat exchanger like a rad or intercooler type exchanger, somewhere in the intake stream.
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Originally posted by JMAXIMA
can't say if this is true or not. the two times i used ice on my intake and manifold, i ran my best two times. i'm sure there might have been other factors, but i ran .2-.3 slower when not using the bags of ice.
can't say if this is true or not. the two times i used ice on my intake and manifold, i ran my best two times. i'm sure there might have been other factors, but i ran .2-.3 slower when not using the bags of ice.
#6
What about connecting the stock air filter box to another larger box with dry ice (if you can get your hands on some). Theoretically, if the ice acts as a cold filter for the incoming intake air, it could lower your air intake temperature levels enough to notice a difference.
Remember, for every 10 degrees increase in intake temperature, you loose about 1% power, which is about 2 hp for our cars/ten degrees.
Remember, for every 10 degrees increase in intake temperature, you loose about 1% power, which is about 2 hp for our cars/ten degrees.
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Originally posted by Str8ridin
What about connecting the stock air filter box to another larger box with dry ice (if you can get your hands on some). Theoretically, if the ice acts as a cold filter for the incoming intake air, it could lower your air intake temperature levels enough to notice a difference.
Remember, for every 10 degrees increase in intake temperature, you loose about 1% power, which is about 2 hp for our cars/ten degrees.
What about connecting the stock air filter box to another larger box with dry ice (if you can get your hands on some). Theoretically, if the ice acts as a cold filter for the incoming intake air, it could lower your air intake temperature levels enough to notice a difference.
Remember, for every 10 degrees increase in intake temperature, you loose about 1% power, which is about 2 hp for our cars/ten degrees.
Dry ice is used in race applications, in formed chunks that sit over transmissions and engines in F1 cars. They do this because at the starts of races, without moving air, they overheat. That's why it isn't unusual to see a large white fogging chunk of fogging material fall out of F1 cars during the first lap.
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