Lowering IATs

[WildHorse]

Just putting this out there.. the moment you go WOT, the AC shuts off. So you're not losing anything.

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[Weyland-Yutani]

Dremeling out the grill, running the intake down into the fender, wrapping it in heat shield etc. won't make any noticeable difference in Florida on a hot day.

I guess it wouldn't hurt anything either, but yeah. I roughly figured intake velocity before at 20m/s. "Air" is also a crappy conductor so...

 

[D Bergstrom]

Stuck in some traffic today and thought of this post. OP was concerned about IAT’s 10 degrees over ambient? Pfft, hold my beer! How about 52 over ambient? Typical Las Vegas summer on the main interstate through town that is always under construction. Didn’t notice anything different about how the car runs, in fact, as soon as I cleared traffic, I stomped on it in second gear and it lit up the tires. I do have the open air box that comes with the Ford Performance calibration, but I noticed the same thing with the stock air box. Not moving everything under the hood becomes heat soaked. Figured I would post this for comparison. Just a fact of living in a hot climate, nothing can be done, I usually don’t even look at IAT’s, don’t care, it is what it is!

Doug

 

[joe603]

WOW! 160...I thought when I had mine in the 130s that was high.

 

[Landshark47]

WOW! 160...I thought when I had mine in the 130s that was high.

back in the day we ran cooler can. Basically it’s a container with a coil of hard fuel line that you can add ice or dry ice into.
The idea was it would cool the fuel.

 

[Landshark47]

back in the day we ran cooler can. Basically it’s a container with a coil of hard fuel line that you can add ice or dry ice into.
The idea was it would cool the fuel.

There are vids from motor tend testing this. I just looked and you can buy a modern version.

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