I am doing a track event at the end of this month and wanted to know if I do a 1/2 hour run and set it to auto do I need to bring some water with me to fill up the intercool mist tank? I am going to set it to auto and let it do it's thing and bring a few extra gallons of watter to add as needed. If this has not been done before I will let you know how much water the car needs. I hope to have the full stage 1 installed at that time and run 100 oct gas so it should be pretty fast on the track.

 

I went through 3 gallons at my last track day. Then again Button Willow was hot that day, 96 degrees in the shade!

 

WOW so it does work. I am in Atlanta so I guess I need to bring about that much as well. Thanks for the input! Also how did the stock breaks hold up?

 

How long does a tank of spray last? I noticed I filled up mine one day, but the next day I checked it, it was back down. I didn't even use it.

 

Stock brakes worked really well for the 1st half of the day. I wasn't getting fade in the 2nd half but a wicked shimmy coming from them. I either didn't bed the pads correctly before or they were just over stressed. When I changed them the face of the pads was just srewed up. Large pits, a small chunck missing on a corner, warped. The discs were fine. It definately needs a better comound for track use.

 

try to use distilled water..not regular sinnk water or anything

 

Second that, you don't want minerl calcification on the intercooler, etc.. Don't bother using windshield washer fluid. It's not as efficient and more expensive.

 

Not to start this all over again but washer fluid has a lower boiling point and is more efficient at removing heat.

 

Does a lower boiling point mean that the liquid becomes a gas at a lower temperature? If that's the case, washer fliud would be less efficient at removing heat because it wouldn't take in as much heat as water?

 

Put your finger in some rubbing alcohol and blow on it.
Put your finger in some water and blow on it.
Which one removes more heat from your finger?

It is not pure alcohol and alcohols boiling point is not so low that it will not get sprayed and take some time to evaporate.
Plus you can still mix it with water.

 

Why do people consider using alcohol? I mean, if some spark suddently occurred near the intercooler, which had been sprayed with alcohol, wouldn't the whole thing just light up into flames?

 

put some ice in your **** with water ont rack day ...

 

I dought i would blaze up, if your hauling azz. The wind would blow the flame out, but if your siting at a stand still and get some sparkage, you might be in some trouble.

 

That is what I was thinking was going to happen. I am getting the break air guides put on and getting the carbotech XP pads with motol 600 fluid. I have a friend who is a master mitsu tech and works on the EVO's and he said that the pads are Brembos but he said that the road and track cars pads and rotors where toast in about 12k miles. I can see that. I will let you know how this setup works. I think the only thing that needs changing is the pads. I have smoked them on the street doing a few 100- 0 stops then they started smoking a little so I know I needed pads.

 

naa, I ran alcohol in other cars and it works fine. It cooks off VERY fast. I am going to stick with water because I don't want alcohol getting all over the car. If I think it starts running too hot I will get a bigger IC but I don't think I will need that.