Operating temps

[David A. Cooley]

At 02:25 AM 9/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Okay, so my previous thought was given a lot of thought by a lot of people
>long ago... my fault.. However, someone mentioned cooling the intake air.
>What about fitting a restrictor between the supercharger/engine? Using the
>same principal as the A/C systems used in commerical aircraft, putting a
>restricter on it will increase pressure, run it through a intercooler,
>then back to the regular pipe size on the throttle body.
>
>The decompression of the air would cause it to cool, if you had a powerful
>enough supercharger I would imagine that you could cool the air pretty
>good. Im wondering about the efficiency though.


The big problem there is restriction.  That takes away any HP gains the SC 
gives.  The only boost in pressure in that system is before the restriction.
An Air to air or air to water intercooler between the SC and intake is a 
big boost though.

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