ok, mis-read...

Anyhow, that typically happen to racing. Overheating is kind of the biggest enermy for street car doing racing since the majority of the components are designed for street use. Therefore, as somebody havd said, putting ice is to prevent overheating....just like people injecting Nitrous to the front of the intercooler...

 

That somebody being... ME!!!

Just kidding. Yeah, chances are what little good it does performance wise to cool down the metal of the throttle body will wear off quickly. It's more of a precautionary measure. Of course, if someone would venture out to a strip, and see if it makes a difference, it'd be helpful.

 

no it wont make a difference the only reason racers do that is to cool the motor down before and after their race. You can also see them using a tank of nitrous and just shooting it all over the motor especially the intake,throttle body and manifolds.

a way to get more added power is by making a Cold AirBox its an enclosed intake filter inside a box...then you can take it a step up and add some dry ice inside the box...i haven't tried doing this and neither will i try but its been done by everybody before but i would suggest you research more into it if you plan to do so.

 

Have we forgotten what dry ice is? Its CO2! AKA CARBON DIOXIDE. I would not EVER put this in a cold air box in my engine, and flood it with that darn greenhouse gas.

Think of it this way... Ever have a soda or beer that was room temp, and you wanted to cool it really fast by sticking it in the freezer. Doesn't really work, does it? The ONLY benefit I could see would MAYBE be to keep parts of your engine from overheating, and not any type of hp boost. Even still, rapid changes in temperature can also seriously damage things, so I would just say this... (in my best Dubya Bush voice)

"Not gon-na do it. Wouldn't be prudent"

 

If you have the time and wanna test something out, its something my dad used to do to his chevelle back in the day before racing. well its a setup thing but you get the idea.. anyways he had a old coffee can mounted in the engine bay and had the fuel line lengthened so he could coil it around the inside of the can then into the engine, before a race he would pour ice/icewater into the can and close it up, it only worked for pretty much 1-2 races depending on heat, but in theory cold gas is better as well, according to him almost everyone used to do it for really cheap hp gain, but I'm not gonna try that with this car

 

If you have the time and wanna test something out, its something my dad used to do to his chevelle back in the day before racing. well its a setup thing but you get the idea.. anyways he had a old coffee can mounted in the engine bay and had the fuel line lengthened so he could coil it around the inside of the can then into the engine, before a race he would pour ice/icewater into the can and close it up, it only worked for pretty much 1-2 races depending on heat, but in theory cold gas is better as well, according to him almost everyone used to do it for really cheap hp gain, but I'm not gonna try that with this car

 

A thought would be very similar to what you just listed, except with dry ice... use something like copper (very heat/cold sensitive) and some copper mesh in an airbox. Then use the ol' coffee can setup, but, that way the mesh would get colder...

Or, you could just stop goofing around with stuff like this and upgrade for real or just deal with being a bit slower.

 

Seriously. All this goofing...

You could just take the subs and box out of your trunk, and probably have better results.

 

(Thats all I have to say)

 

If this wasn't said already its too cool down the intake on supercharged vehicles and such since most of them aren'tintercooled so this lowers their intake temp back to normal, but its prolly bad for the metal.

 

Just for cooling down the engine and combating overheating, plain and simple.

 

At the end of the video getaway in stockholm 2 there is a black car that looks fast as a rocket and before each drag he sprays fire extinguisher stuff in front (in the dam, radiator, etc) from outside the car

I dunno, but that fire ext. thing is like -40 degrees when it shoots.

Etienne

 

Probably spraying his intercooler.

 

how would condensation affect things? whats the difference between making a run down the track and driving all night in the rain? water is gonna get up there. its just like a 15 second run. so im thinking like ur car is not gonna be running long. and then once the car does heat up, some of that water is gonna evaporate into smaller molecules...

 

Of course you could just save up and buy a water injection system. PEACE