putting ice on intercooler?
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putting ice on intercooler?
I know this might be dumb but Ive heard that if u put a big piece of ice on the mesh above intercooler before racing it will actually make your car run faster? any truth about this?
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it lowers your temps very little i hear.. almost insignificant unless you use liquid nitrogen or some crazy **** like that (a little exagerated, but you get the picture)
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Welps..if it mattes any, I've seen people use fire extinguishers to freeze their intercoolers right before a run. :p
Nitrous coolers are pretty damn awesome...instant ice cold air on your FMIC...
Nitrous coolers are pretty damn awesome...instant ice cold air on your FMIC...
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At last years spring nationals, i saw a guy with a huge chunk of ice on his top mount cooler.
The ice lasted a mear 30 secs whilst in the burn out comp, he ended up blowing something after the ice was gone..
it was a non-rotor and it was 43 degrees (C) in the shade.
The ice lasted a mear 30 secs whilst in the burn out comp, he ended up blowing something after the ice was gone..
it was a non-rotor and it was 43 degrees (C) in the shade.
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i saw a 3rd gen supra with a 1jz engine swap i it dyno about a month ago. he did one run w/o ice and laid down 505hp then one run with ice. the run with the ice he laid down 535hp. but why would you really do that its not really hp that you will ever be able to use. so who cares if it does.
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It does help, when you are in staging lanes and after a run its very easy for your intake manifold and IC to be heat soaked. How can you say it makes no difference what so ever???
Have you ever noticed how much quicker you car feels in the cold winter months???
The cooler air leads to more horsepower, even a 20 degree difference helps.
Tell Ray that it makes no difference on his 9 second 7.
What I find funny, is when the riceboys at the local strip buy four or five large bags of ice and put them all over the engine bay. These are N/A Hondas and Stealths BTW. I've even seen a 15 second SS Camaro use ice.
Have you ever noticed how much quicker you car feels in the cold winter months???
The cooler air leads to more horsepower, even a 20 degree difference helps.
Tell Ray that it makes no difference on his 9 second 7.
What I find funny, is when the riceboys at the local strip buy four or five large bags of ice and put them all over the engine bay. These are N/A Hondas and Stealths BTW. I've even seen a 15 second SS Camaro use ice.
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How about reloacting your windshield washer fluid squirters to somewhere in front of your IC. Fill up the tank w/ water and have em squirt.
Some type of misting effect would be nice.
Some type of misting effect would be nice.
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How about reloacting your windshield washer fluid squirters to somewhere in front of your IC. Fill up the tank w/ water and have em squirt.
Some type of misting effect would be nice.
How about reloacting your windshield washer fluid squirters to somewhere in front of your IC. Fill up the tank w/ water and have em squirt.
Some type of misting effect would be nice.
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I tried that! Instead of usign the stock windshield squirters, I used the sprayers from hair spray bottles (they give a mist compared to the windshield squirter's stream). I drive through 1 1/2 hrs of traffic per day, so I thought that would help, but..... no noticeable diff. There's not enough water to do much, and it's too slow. All I did was get the I/C duct wet
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If you go some extra cash, pick up the NX N-TER-COOLER kit, you basically attach the assembly they've made to the front of the intercooler (looks pretty good) and you attach the NOS lines to it etc. Hook it up to a push button type of switch, and purge!!
p.s aftermarket fmic
p.s aftermarket fmic
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Originally posted by r0t0r-rooter
I tried that! Instead of usign the stock windshield squirters, I used the sprayers from hair spray bottles (they give a mist compared to the windshield squirter's stream). I drive through 1 1/2 hrs of traffic per day, so I thought that would help, but..... no noticeable diff. There's not enough water to do much, and it's too slow. All I did was get the I/C duct wet
I tried that! Instead of usign the stock windshield squirters, I used the sprayers from hair spray bottles (they give a mist compared to the windshield squirter's stream). I drive through 1 1/2 hrs of traffic per day, so I thought that would help, but..... no noticeable diff. There's not enough water to do much, and it's too slow. All I did was get the I/C duct wet
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When I was at UPRD and we built a lot of big single turbo MKIV Supras, on the T78 kits we'd set up a single fogger nozzle/150ish hp shot attached to a Hobb's switch.. Via throttle switch/button It would inject Nitrous Oxide until we reached 5-7 psi of manifold pressure, then it shut off the fogger and sprayed the intercooler through a spray bar for the remainder of the programming. Quite a cool setup for the street, It helped those big singles spool up quick. Uses up Nitrous fast though.I wish I had some dyno results to post, that was a while ago..
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