Ok, this is kinda a spin on the whole "Cold Air Induction thing" Maybe its been brought up before. Any familiar with those cans of compressed air you use for computers? If you placed one in your intake area (before the MAF out near the filter) and blew the cold air (while the can is blowing it drops temp even forms ice) As long as that was in the path of air flow it would drop temps as the air flowed around the can, not to mention the cold air exiting the can. Would this work?? I know that it would take some doing.. but I could forsee a 10~15 degree drop in temps on a hot summer day. Worth a 1~2mph probably? The cans are cheap and probably get 5 ~ 6 runs easy out of 1 can.

What do you think? Discuss.

 

Not sure how it would help combustion but is it flowing enough to lower the air temperature? Doesn't an LT1 suck in 11 cubic feet of air per second? I read that somewhere i believe and i'm not sure if its a stock or modified LT1. Why not just run a small shot of nitrous?

 

What is the actual gas that is being sprayed out?

You'd have to have the can upside down...

Sounds like it would work great in conjunction with an electric supercharger and O-Pipe.

 

Sounds like it would be putting out volume like the electric supercharger

 

Well... N20 is much more expensive for one... plus potentially damaging to the engine, and the air exiting the can is something like 20degrees. Much different than circulating warm air like the electric S/C It is simply compressed air..nothing more. Think of it as an external cold air source.

 

I am almost sure those cans are full of CO2. I think if anything it will slow you down because you are depriving the motor of oxygen to burn the fuel.
Just my 2 cents.

Taylor

 

Well if thats the case... nevermind. LOL I figured I would at least entertain it for a moment.

Well, after looking into it... http://www.afeas.org/paft/hfc-134a.html HFC-134A refridgerant.

 

Well if you had a metal intake pipe and sparyed it on to the pipe not in the pipe. It would cool the pipe down which would cool the air, but I doubt it would make much of a difference.

Taylor

 

Just looking for something simple.. like icing the intake..you know the little things people claim work.

 

They usually containe 1,1,1,2 Tetrafluoroethane
As the contents of the can are expelled the can gets colder itself just like a bottle of N20, the colder it gets the less of a pressure the gas has so you need to keep the can warmed if you want it to keep going for longer periods of time. Spraying the can on the intake tube would only create small patch of "cold" which would probably do little or nothing :/
As for the spray itself. The spray itself is not very cold at all when it comes out of the bottle when sprayed upright (Just sprayed some in my face now ). It only gets cold if ya tilt it upside down and spray the liquid part on something. When it evaporates and "decompresses" thats when it absorbs heat (or gets cold). Kinda like how airconditioners work.
You'd probably get more power out of the air can by spraying it out the t-tops towards the back

 

LMAO... it was just a thought man how about a styrofoam cooler in the fenderwell that you can fill with icecubes plenty of cold air there.

Ahh...screw it, I got nothing.

 

I hear using full synthetic blinker fluid is a good 15 HP gain. So is a semi-duplex mufller bearing. Then match a stroker kit with your transmission? You'll be pushing 500 HP.

Just kidding with you...

Save the money you would spend on your cans and find a few decent bolt-ons.

 

I'm looking at a can of Staples "Compressed Gas Duster"..... 100% 1, 1-Difluoroethane.

The can weighs 284 grams. A hi po 350 runnning max RPM consumes about 270 grams per second of air. While the heat of vaporization of the can's contents will drop the temperature of the combined air + "canned gas", it isn't going to last very long. At a ratio of 10:1 air:canned gas, it lasts 10 seconds.

Maybe we should use laughing gas..... wait a minute.... some of us already do

 

Not to mention the can itself would be acting like a big cork in the intake blocking a large volume of air.

 

Screw that, just hook up a bottle of oxygen to your intake.

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