A lot of thought has been put into cooling the air in the intake after it has been compressed with all sorts of ice water supplying the intercooler. Has anyone considered also cooling the air before the compressor. It would be relatively easy to mount a small heater core or small oil cooler in place of the stock air filter. I would bet that if the same ice water that you guys already are pumping through the stock intercooler could drop the intake air from maybe 120 degrees to maybe 60 degrees. It would be just like running in the fall.

Just a thought

 

What about condensation. Where I live, it gets extremely humid and anything cooler than ambient turns into a faucet. It would only work with ice as cooling that pre cooler with a radiator would just cool it to ambient temperatures which would be pointelss in the first place and provide an additional intake restriction.

Probably wouldn't be worth the efforst unless the truck is primarily used for drag racing at the track....

 

It would only work in a drag racing situation. These trucks are just so sensitive to air temp that I think it just may work. If you already are running a JL Power cooler it would not be that much more work to install.

See http://www.racerpartswholesale.com/cooler1.htm

like the TRU - H7B

Andy

 

That is one of the reasons why people use nitrous. It changes from a liquid in the bottle into gas out the nozzle. I think it enters out the nozzle at -127 degrees. Not very sure. Ask Lightningtuner

 

So a progressively 250 shot make more sense

 

That's exactly why I like nitrous!!!

 

I have an idea of running CO2 carbon dioxide through the intercooler under the blower, disconnect the in and out lines into manifold , hook up compressed CO2 on the inlet ,the gas will go through the intercooler and out the outlet. you would have to pipe the outlet down under the engine but it would sure cool that compressed air charge down.

 

Has anyone figured out Ford's patented new system for the '04 Lightnings that is supposed to give 50 hp in 30 sec bursts? They claim it drops the air temp to 30 degrees.

 

Didn't you read? It says that it uses the A/C to cool some of the intercooler liquid at WOT (i believe) it switches and runs the cooled fluid through and thats what gives you the extra power.

 

I had this same idea a few months ago, but i figured the condensation might kill the idea on a humid 90* day. Then I was thinking about wrapping some sort of metal tubing around a cone air filter and running liquid co2 through that, just to cool the air before it comes through the filter. Anything to cool it those few degrees, and the condensation would be stuck outside the filter.