Any of you guys played with this?

I'm thinking the spray would have to be sprayed quite close to the 'cooler or it will get lost into the atmosphere while the car is running down the track.

Perhaps some sort of spray bar.

 

nx has a co2 system thats for spraying the i/c

 

I've always been of the opinion that spraying nitrous on the inside of the pipe will net you alot more power than spraying it on the outside of the pipe.

Mike

 

air/water

 

What he said . A fine mist of water would be a lot cheaper than blowing nitrous into the atmosphere. A high pressure pump and nozzles that produce very small droplets would prevent you from getting off the track because of leaks.

 

Or, as I think 89Procharged was implying, instead of spraying water onto the intercooler, you could enclose it and circulate water through it. This would actually convert it to a water-to-air intercooler.

Mike

 

Yup

PSJ's car is really setup to go racing, so he might as well use an air/water setup. Hell, my setup is more street geared and im using an air/water. Just takes a little bit to setup but the results are worth it imo

 

Based on the The Highlander's results (500 rwhp non-IC and 555 with the Vortech Aftercooler), I ordered mine on Friday. He's only running 8-9 psi boost while I'm running 14, so my gains may even be greater.

 

I'm gonna do what nobody else did.

I'm going to try air/air, and then log the inlet air temps before a run and after. I could not find any detailed info.

Air/water was initially the plan but we were trying to make a deadline (and didn't).

I'll keep YOU guys posted.

 

If you want to spray on outside, CO2 is cheap and cold. Allows you to spray and "freeze" the cooler before you run. The cooler then acts like a huge heat sink and soaks the heat out of the intake charge while the car is getting up to speed where it can then exchange air/air on the top end. Spraying with water may give you some serious traction problems if you get much water on the track.

 

I have been racing for about seven years so I know not to spray fluids that can drip on the track.

C02 sounds very interesting.

 

I'd spray into the motor and purge on the intercooler.

 

I like the CO2 idea, I don't want to and cannot run dual power adders for some of the classes I am interested in racing this and next year. Also not interested in trying to figure out the AF ratio stuff for it.

 

John - We did it this weekend. Check out the dyno fun thread. We produced some excellent results doing so.

 

CO2 is not a power adder its a power enhancer. I wonder if it still considers a power adder? hummm.