I was telling Carlos about this, so what does everyone think: http://www.fastwrx.com/nterinchil.html? I'm not interested in it, but I wonder if it really gives 50 HP.

 

50hp!!!lol, i dont know about that one... not at the wheels definetly....and i dont know, is this considered a tech issue?

 

Well...cold air is really good for your power. Dunno bout 50HP unless you have a fully modded out 500HP monster!.

For our cars I'd say 15HP max with a huge amount of reassurance that your engine is getting cold air.

Maybe we could dyno someone's 2wd Turbo car and hold up ice packs to it...then see the results?

 

i remember reading about the ntercooler power gains on a s13/s14 conversion somewhere. i can't remember what magazine it was from, but i'll post up when i find the article.

 

HOWEVER...I have an experiment that I'd like you tracks people to try.

Take some bottles of Air Duster. That's the cans of compressed air used to clean computer keyboards and stuff. When you turn it upside down and spray it shoots out the liquid air at a much higher density and yes it is cold.

When at tracks and around when you get to the burnout area. Try spaying a whole can of that stuff all over your IC. That would be cool if it worked for tracks purposes. Though I guess you'd need another person to help.

The stuff is pretty cold man...I sprayed my wall with it upside down and it was durn cold.

 

Would This Fit Over The Top Mount Intercooler?

 

Yea there is a pic from a website(i think it was easystreet) where they mounted it to their TMIC.

 

I just want to say "be careful" when using that canned air in liquid form. Treat it as if it's liquid nitrogen. The stuff I use is so cold that the liquid freezes soft and liquid matter almost instantly. Seems odd, but I use the stuff to kill centipedes. It's clean and leaves no poison residue. When I mean freeze -- I really mean it. You tap the centipede and it shatters. Spray it on a flower and it shatters when you "clink" it.
I'm sure most of these products are the same, so treat it with care. You'll get very severe frostbite if it splashes onto your skin. Heaven forbid it splashes into your eye (in case you plan on dumping a whole can onto you intercooler, take extra caution).
Just my heads-up. Great product for cooling things down. but don't be wreckless and take it for granted.

 

idk about that but i do know those things are kinda expencive, especially if you go to the tracks a lot and do a few runs a night. i think the best way would be to just borrow someones paintball gun air tank. they use compressed co2 and it is super cold. you could easily make a trigger from parts at a compressor store. it's worth a try though. if you ever go tracks blake i'll spray your ic for ya. L8R

 

I just put crushed ice overy my IC before I go tracks. It's pretty much free coming from the dispenser in my fridge.

 

Why not dry ice? Think that might work?

 

Why not dry ice? Think that might work?

 

screw that!!! use a bag of ice from 7-11, $1 to keep your IC cool, hell stuff it under your hoodscoop when you run

No seriously someone please try this hahaha

 

I tried that and there are several problems with doing that:

1. It bends the intercooler fins if you are not very careful
2. Evaporates too quickly
3. Not cold enough to make much of a performance gain (at least from what I have read)
4. You get yelled at if you drip water on the track

Dry ice is too drastic. If you hit a bump your intercooler would be shattered. With NOS it looks like it cools it below freezing, but not to the point of shattering. The are also sequential systems that spray large bursts of NOS to cool the intercooler. I thought of the spray air also, but by the time that you got one side of the intercooler cooled down the other side would be completely back to normal. CO2, now that is an idea! ...I'll ponder that for a little while...

 

i accidentally sprayed that stuff on my face once while cleaning my comp....and holy shet it burns