Possible cooling solution for those with SC or other high heat mods

[lucky13rme]

I was looking thru my summit catalog and came across this.
http://www.designengineering.com/cryo2_related_items.html
and I thought this might be a possible/useful way to cool down the intake charge for those of you with the supercharger.

[jaketuff]

I think that N20 is much more effective than this... but maybe the CO2 has benefits I have not thought of??? Cheaper than N20, but harder to find.

Pat

[Craig99SE2]

Originally posted by jaketuff
I think that N20 is much more effective than this... but maybe the CO2 has benefits I have not thought of??? Cheaper than N20, but harder to find.

Pat

If I'm not mistaken, this kit does not "inject CO2 into the air/fuel. It simply super-cools a manifold that the air passes through.

Also, you can get CO2 at just about any compressed gas distributor and/or welding shop. MUCH CHEAPER than N2O! A 5# CO2 refill is around $5! (I use it for my homebrew...)

EDIT: I *think* CO2 converts to gas more efficiently than N2O as well which will make it last much longer. When N2O goes from liquid to gas, it is quite a violent reaction, therefore it expends very quickly!

[Jason W]

CO2 is the same as N2O in that it exists as a liquid while under pressure in the tank. When some of the gas escapes some of the liquid flashes to gas to replace whatever was lost. This process continues until the tank runs out of liquid, then pressure falls off sharply. This is why you have to mount nitrous tanks at an angle with the label facing up. There is a a siphon tube(called a pickup) inside the nitrous tank that reaches down and sucks up the liquid from the bottom of the tank. Tanks should also be mounted with the valve towards the front of the car so all the liquid sloshes towards the pickup at launch instead of a way from it. Nitrous acts in two ways by increasing the amount of oxygen available for combustion and by cooling off the intake charge.

[qwik99gt]

Good find, lucky13rme.:)

It's about time somebody came up with this. I was getting tired of seeing turbo imports blowing good nitrous on their intercoolers. They should just race in Michigan. No heat problems at all. Last week we stayed single digits the whole time. Now that'll create some hellacious boost levels! ....If you can knock the frost off your turbo.:D

[AllMotorgagt]

Nitrious express makes the same kind of it,it mounts in front of the intercooler. all my friends with turbos use it...it suposssed to give bout 50 hp it workes alot better in the summer when it hot out though.