Did anyone buy this months Evo Magazine?

 

In the first few pages, amongst all the new & future car release stuff was a paragraph about a new patented BHP quick-fix.

 

Kinda like nitrous injection, I'm no techie but it sounds effective...

 

The system uses the car's airconditioning system to cool a body of fluid (coolant?) down to a low temp in a separate tank. Then you've got a button on your dash which dumps the fluid into your intercoolers, geddit?

 

I can't find the mag :rolleyes: or remember the car in question but it had v high BHP as standard (500ish?), however I remember it saying this method was worth a quick 50BHP :eek: .

 

And get this - the fluid can be recooled within 2 minutes!

 

Any thoughts?

 

Pete

Could work with a watercooled intercooler, I think

it´s called chargecooler.

Link it to the AC and use freon instead of water.

 

Just a tought:)

Fraid laws of physics say you can't get something for nothing viper, running the compressor will use more bhp than it creates.

 

The other method could potentially work but 50 seems a bit to high but you never know. How cold could the ac get it i wonder?

What you talkin about robotor.....can`t get something for nothing indeed! Pah! Phooey!

 

I am (or at least was) a sciency sort too and on more than one occaision while at uni, I managed to get in a whole nights drinking without buying a single round! I can understand the physics of that, even thought I am just a lowly chemist:D

 

Seriously though, I wonder about the validity of either method. Sounds a bit like the *power booster* an aquaintance of mine has on his Supra. Is supposed to use a permanent magnet to line up the molecules in petrol for more efficient burning. Sounds like a crock to me unless it manipulates dipole moments which must be too weak to be affected by slapping a permanent magnet around your fuel line. Idoit really thinks it works though......hey ho

The article in question...

 

Tim

Its not really energy for nothing though is it? It is storing energy when there is less required by the transmission, and then dumping it when needed. It would work BUT I really am struggling to see where they get 50bhp from. IIRC you get an increase of around 1bhp for every 10 degrees cooler you can get the intake temp. That would mean the ICs normally run at around 500 degrees LOL. Either my power per temp difference is way out (likely) or they're talkin shite :D

 

CheerZ,

 

Andy

Originally posted by Robtor

Fraid laws of physics say you can't get something for nothing viper, running the compressor will use more bhp than it creates.

 

 

But it could use horsepower at one moment in time and deliver a boost without the A/c working - so it could work (raise BHP) for periods of power delivery. It won't raise BHP all the time, just like nitrous. ;)

Yea i know that nelson, obviously you could take and store say 10 bhp for 30secs and release it as 30bhp for 10secs, only if 100% efficent mind you and it wont be anywhere near it..

 

My reply was at Viper who's post i took to describe an always running system.

Thats the article :D.

 

Pete