Flow rates for nozzles

[Greg Hermann]

>Okay.
>
>Spraying the intercooler is a great idea IMO.  Some WRC cars come with I/C
>sprayers right from the factory, or used to.
>
>Spraying nitrous on the core would do the trick too ;)

Whazza WRC ???

Why do I think that liquid CO2 (like from a fire extinguisher) would be a
better choice for this than nitrous (or propane)?? :-) Maybe freon if we
want to really shock some GEEKS!! :-)

Regards, Greg
>
>I wondered a while back about using a water-air charge cooler.  When not in
>use you could use the a/c system chiller to cool the charge air coolant.
>When you needed to tap into the power you'd disable the a/c and have a few
>minutes of well below ambient air charge.  It would be short lived and with
>the added expense of water-air intercoolers I discarded the idea.  Might
>have merit somewhere though.
>
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Barry
>
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>> I am thinking more in terms of spraying water on the cooling air side of
>> the intercooler--or maybe onto some cel-dek or burlap type
>> material located
>> in front of the IC, so as to suck the temp of the cooling air
>> going through
>> the IC down somewhere near to the ambient WET BULB temp under high load
>> conditions (sorta like the old desert coolers)--and thus get
>> cooler, denser
>> charge air indirectly instead of diluting it with H2O vapor. Wet
>> bulb temps
>> above 74 degrees F are pretty rare, even in Miami.
>>
>> Regards, Greg
>>
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