Mike Manzo
Registered User
A friend of mine who builds movie props is going to take the cold air divider of Magnum Powers to a new level.
We plan to incorporate a sealed enclosure that draws from the air below the car as normal, but passes over possibly a transmission cooler.
The transmission cooler will contain a substance that retains its cold temperature very well, and yet still will flow with the assistance of a winshield washer pump mounted under the car (in the place where the old airbox was.
What cools the substance would be a weather-sealed (or internally mounted) 12V refrigeration unit much like that used for portable coolers.
The sealed enclosure also acts as a refirgerator itself with places to insert gel-packs which with the assistance of the transmission cooler pumping cold fluid through it to retain the temperature.
The casing would be insulated from engine heat as thouroughly as possible.
My question is will this (when associated with a upgraded intake setup such as MagPowers plenum, top and SC, have a difinitive effect on the air charge.
I would assume that if care is taken to insulate the intercooler tubes from the headers, that one could theoretically retain optimal fall-type temperatures for initial air charge.
We all know our SCs perform like mad in fall and winter and always have performance increases with cold air intakes ONLY migrating the filter below the car.
My friend and I are going to work on this to be mountable, but non-invasive (so you dont have to drill holes in the car or something). Sealed after the MAF and flex with engine torque and yet complete the fenderwell all the way to the front of the engine bay.
Another "cooling" possibility would be to utilize the AC to cool the coolant, but that could be tricky.
Everyone is cooling the intercooler which is great, but if you start out with cold air, the ending result should be cooler air at the end and thus when mixed with and IC application, it will produce a overall coldest-air system.
Any thoughts??
Thanks
Mike
We plan to incorporate a sealed enclosure that draws from the air below the car as normal, but passes over possibly a transmission cooler.
The transmission cooler will contain a substance that retains its cold temperature very well, and yet still will flow with the assistance of a winshield washer pump mounted under the car (in the place where the old airbox was.
What cools the substance would be a weather-sealed (or internally mounted) 12V refrigeration unit much like that used for portable coolers.
The sealed enclosure also acts as a refirgerator itself with places to insert gel-packs which with the assistance of the transmission cooler pumping cold fluid through it to retain the temperature.
The casing would be insulated from engine heat as thouroughly as possible.
My question is will this (when associated with a upgraded intake setup such as MagPowers plenum, top and SC, have a difinitive effect on the air charge.
I would assume that if care is taken to insulate the intercooler tubes from the headers, that one could theoretically retain optimal fall-type temperatures for initial air charge.
We all know our SCs perform like mad in fall and winter and always have performance increases with cold air intakes ONLY migrating the filter below the car.
My friend and I are going to work on this to be mountable, but non-invasive (so you dont have to drill holes in the car or something). Sealed after the MAF and flex with engine torque and yet complete the fenderwell all the way to the front of the engine bay.
Another "cooling" possibility would be to utilize the AC to cool the coolant, but that could be tricky.
Everyone is cooling the intercooler which is great, but if you start out with cold air, the ending result should be cooler air at the end and thus when mixed with and IC application, it will produce a overall coldest-air system.
Any thoughts??
Thanks
Mike