2000CivicSIR
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Ac

if i hook up my ac to my intake will i make more power? i figure that since the air will be denser that i would since it would be like an intercooler then it would be kinda cool because with the ac knob i would be able to control how much power

it might work.....

except for the whole 'ac drawing power from the engine in the first place' deal.

Maybe he'll make an extra 500 HP, so having the a/c compressor on really wouldn't matter :)

lol, if this idea would actually work in the way he thinks, people would all be doing it by now instead of dropping coin on expensive cooling systems....

I'm betting he'd get very small gains, at max... Sounds like the "Dry Ice Intake" and "Co2 Sprayer" ideas i've read about before...

Edit: Goddamn forum... lol

you could run a supercharger through a little freon thus creating one bad ass a/c unit :)

Ford has a system that uses AC to cool the intake charge. Not in production yet but its there...

Ford's patented SuperCooler technology cleverly provides a special burst of power for the SVT Lightning concept. Traditional intercoolers dissipate heat from the supercharged air by circulating coolant through a front-mounted, air-cooled radiator. With the SuperCooler system, the vehicle's air conditioning system is used to chill a small storage tank of coolant to about 30 degrees Fahrenheit.

On demand, the SuperCooler system switches the intercooler flow from its normal circulation and dumps the chilled coolant into the engine's intercooler. In turn, the intercooler dissipates up to 20 percent more heat from the charge air - resulting in a denser air charge.

that's pretty smart. it could work as long as theres a seperate storage unit.

otherwise i dont think the fan blower can move enough air for the engine to use at all rpms.

i mean, otherwise we could just take the fan blower and redirect it to the intake... voila, electric ebay turbo.

:rolleyes:

btw you guys know i wasn't serious with the first post, right? :(

that's what someone else posted one of the ubiquitous honduh forums and i thought it was funny enough to put up here...

haha! this is some funny shit! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I think in the long term you always net a LOSS of horsepower with a system like this.

The advantage comes when you have a reserve tank so you can be sucking that extra HP when you don't need it to accelerate.

its a reserve tank setup like you mentioned above this. it has an on/off button for the system to even begin to work so not like youre gonna have it on 24/7 .

I thought about doing an A2W intercooler with a crapload of peltier junction devices to cool it off, but after I finally solved all the equations, the damned things are just too inefficient.

Running at 60 A of current, it would still take more than 10 minutes to build up a decent cold reserve.

An AC system could do better, but you'd have to convert it from cooling air to cooling water, a significant effort.

ditch the a/c crap and run a icewater storage tank. and a small elec. pump to circulate the water through the lightning's stuff.

the ice wont last very long on the street but your not supposed to be racing there anyways. :cop: