Re: Just an idea regarding supercharging..<Tangent version>

[PANTHER <st_gcurl@tarleton.edu>]

yeah, the dry ice cool cans work well, but they're not legal in SCCA soloII.

On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Shawn Meze wrote:

> At 09:39 AM 10/1/96 -0500, you wrote:
> >just an idea.....
> >both SC's and turbos run off the principal of providing more condenced 
> >air running through the engine.  A guy has used this theory in his 
> >mustang by running one of the "cool" AC hoses through the intake manifold.  
> >there is still freon/R-12 in the ac but the system runs off of this 
> >principal:outside are runs through the intake system...This air passes 
> >the cool line from the AC thus cooling the air(making it more 
> >compressed).   Now i know your thinking"the AC takes up power" but in 
> >this system that dosen't matter.  This guy runs his AC till it gets cold, 
> >then turns it off.  The lines remain cold for a while thereby cooling the 
> >air and the AC dosen't drain engine power....
> 
> A few years ago, when I drag raced an alcohol Funnycar, we had a coilled
> fuel line that fit into a simple tin can. When we got up to the line, we
> would slip in some dry ice into the can that would super chill the fuel as
> it passed thru the coilled lines. (Alcohol only freezes at extremely low
> temps) It worked great, best time of 8.43 @ 155mph. I have heard that some
> honda boys are sticking chunks of dry ice on their intake manifolds at the
> drag strip. I guess it works.....
> 
> Shawn
> 
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