Chemically Cooled?

[dannyboy1999]

Been hearing alot of talk about chemical cooling 50/50 alcohol spray can be used with boosted and natrual asperated cars especially if you live somewhere where 100 degree plus temps are common. Anyone know anything about this. Heard boosted can get you 70-90 hp and natrually asperated can get 12-20 hp out of it? They even sell nitro you can dump in the 50/50 resavoir so when it sprays its like haveing a nos kit installed with out all the hassle. Just enough not to blow your engine apart.

 

[dannyboy1999]

Reason i ask is im back and forth between tennesse and arizona. Ill be in arizon for two more years and in my area there its 90-125 degrees even in november its still 80 ish or so. But in TN its gets up to maybe 100 max durring the summer. I dont plan to put a blower on this car any time soon so it would be for a natrually asperated application. Im thinking of a roots blower maybe a couple years down the road when im ready for it and im out of AZ. Would it have really any benefit for natrually asperated? They "say" up to 20 more hp or so.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Ambient heat can be a significant contributing factor to detonation. The cheapest and easiest way to combat detonation is to run a higher octane when it is super hot. You can also slightly retard timing to combat detonation.

 

[hotmustang331]

^Agreed. But IMO alky injection is pretty much a waste on a N/A motor...BUT it would help. I just dont see it gaining anything unless you upp the timing. In a blower application, the alky not only upps the octain so to speak...but the fluid is MUCH cooler than the pressurized 200* air and acts as a boost cooler.

 

[SaleenGT2001]

yea, it is a waste on a N/A motor but if you are running a blower and have no intercooler it would make a BIG differance.

 

[damacman]

Really? I put my snow boost cooler on before the supercharger (I live in Arizona too). Immediately thereafter, my car ran so much more consistently. It felt more powerful, so I took it to the track to find out and blew up the clutch. Now that I'm blown, the boost cooler was just one more thing I didn't have to buy . . .

The path you're talking about was a good route for me.

 

[dannyboy1999]

Really? I put my snow boost cooler on before the supercharger (I live in Arizona too). Immediately thereafter, my car ran so much more consistently. It felt more powerful, so I took it to the track to find out and blew up the clutch. Now that I'm blown, the boost cooler was just one more thing I didn't have to buy . . .

The path you're talking about was a good route for me.

So good path for a N/A especially in hot climates and if you play to put a blower on later. I mean hey its only 300 bucks for up to 20 HP on a N/a an up to like 90 HP on a blow (depending on boost). Im still debateing