Does ice help on the supercharger at track?
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Originally Posted by STi_WRX02
Why don'ty u do what STi and other scooby owners do. Route a water sprayer kit to the heat exchanger/intercooler. I'm gona do it on mine. Also I hear it does help a lil...obviously not drastic changes but I hear in traffic and hot ass days it'll help with the heatsoak.
The way the intercooler works on this car will not accept that.
It's a Water to Air cooler not an Air to Air FMIC.
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Originally Posted by Brian MP5T
The way the intercooler works on this car will not accept that.
It's a Water to Air cooler not an Air to Air FMIC.
It's a Water to Air cooler not an Air to Air FMIC.
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Originally Posted by Brian MP5T
The way the intercooler works on this car will not accept that.
It's a Water to Air cooler not an Air to Air FMIC.
It's a Water to Air cooler not an Air to Air FMIC.
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Originally Posted by victory_red_SS
So i have been told but on the intercooler.
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Originally Posted by beerbaron105
how would you attempt to place it on our intercooler when its wedged between the supercharger and head in a watercooler setup?
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Originally Posted by Cobalt_Supercharged
It will work much better if you get the coolant cooler, rather than the actual IC. If the coolant is warmer than the IC it will actually warm it back up. Keep the coolant ice cold, and it will cool the IC the same. Not to mention it would take much longer to warm all the coolant back up than just the metal on the IC. That's why I say dry ice on the heat exchanger.
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Originally Posted by victory_red_SS
Well I am in Canada and I was wearing shorts & t-shirt yesterday and the flowers are blooming and the birds are singing as I walk along the beaches looking at the snow capped mountains. 
Anyways....
How do you guys prevent the bag from slipping and falling onto a hot engine component? Do you tape it down or something?
Sorry if thats a stupid question, but I am curious?
Originally Posted by zinner
Ice is 32 degrees=Supercharger is definetly warmer than 62 degree. Sometimes the supercharger is too warm to touch after you have been running the car hard.
If you watched the street tuner challenge you will see the GM team icing down the supercharger during the dyno runs...
Whenever you have two peice of metal bolted together and you dramatically cool one down and the other is hot there is going to be some stress.
If you watched the street tuner challenge you will see the GM team icing down the supercharger during the dyno runs...
Whenever you have two peice of metal bolted together and you dramatically cool one down and the other is hot there is going to be some stress.
one of black06ss's ideas is to rig a peive of aluminum mesh so that it will sit write where the intake sucks in the air and have the mesh support a small block of dry ice so that the intake charge is cooled
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Originally Posted by mi6_
Damb you BC people! We still have snow in places in Edmonton! No freaking birds or blooming flowers here yet. My SS is still on steelies!
Anyways....
How do you guys prevent the bag from slipping and falling onto a hot engine component? Do you tape it down or something?
Sorry if thats a stupid question, but I am curious?
Anyways....
How do you guys prevent the bag from slipping and falling onto a hot engine component? Do you tape it down or something?
Sorry if thats a stupid question, but I am curious?
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Originally Posted by hatrickstu
one of black06ss's ideas is to rig a peive of aluminum mesh so that it will sit write where the intake sucks in the air and have the mesh support a small block of dry ice so that the intake charge is cooled
Ummm, Thats really dumb because the CO2 would then get injested instead of air and you would end up with "Reverse Nitros Injection".
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Originally Posted by Cobalt_Supercharged
It would work, but not nearly as efficient, and it would be a pain in the a$$ to set up since we have the AC condesor in front of the heat exchanger.
Yeah, A/C... Theres Performance...
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Originally Posted by STi_WRX02
Why don'ty u do what STi and other scooby owners do. Route a water sprayer kit to the heat exchanger/intercooler. I'm gona do it on mine. Also I hear it does help a lil...obviously not drastic changes but I hear in traffic and hot ass days it'll help with the heatsoak.
Originally Posted by Mike's SS
Yeah and be an ass by dripping water all over the track and mess stuff up for everyone else.
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Persoanlly the only thing "ice" is usually good for is getting water on the track! It's almost as bad as retards that us the burnout box with street tires!! It's not allowed at my local track and if you're caught you are gone!! Plus, a mod mentoined the expanation and contaction. Is it really worth the possible stresses that will caused with frequent use?
Originally Posted by SS4ME
Persoanlly the only thing "ice" is usually good for is getting water on the track! It's almost as bad as retards that us the burnout box with street tires!! It's not allowed at my local track and if you're caught you are gone!! Plus, a mod mentoined the expanation and contaction. Is it really worth the possible stresses that will caused with frequent use?
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dont waiste your ice.. keep it in the cooler for the beer.. i have more then enough strip passes and all in all your driving ability has more to do with your time then the ice.. the ice is more of a "mental" thing
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At this link below, click on the "Engineering" tab just under the pic of the truck. It desribes how they got an extra 50 transient hp for 30-45 seconds, just by cooling the intercooler liquid to ~30 degrees F.
http://www.svt.ford.com/conceptLabLightning.asp
And use dry ice. It works much faster and doesn't melt, it evaporates.
http://www.svt.ford.com/conceptLabLightning.asp
And use dry ice. It works much faster and doesn't melt, it evaporates.
Originally Posted by Cobalt_Supercharged
At this link below, click on the "Engineering" tab just under the pic of the truck. It desribes how they got an extra 50 transient hp for 30-45 seconds, just by cooling the intercooler liquid to ~30 degrees F.
http://www.svt.ford.com/conceptLabLightning.asp
And use dry ice. It works much faster and doesn't melt, it evaporates.
http://www.svt.ford.com/conceptLabLightning.asp
And use dry ice. It works much faster and doesn't melt, it evaporates.