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Jun 17, 2004 | 12:32 AM

#16

TrunkSlammer

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Screw the egg, Stick a live chicken under it.

More cold air in will help build more hp.
Try sticking a block of dry ice in your intake...lol

Jun 17, 2004 | 07:35 AM

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Big Orn

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Originally Posted by 68 351 bronc

some how I lost my post and I hate typing so I Ain't re doin it!!!
My point was
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Another reason for that Post Indicator?

Old folks always have that problem, Ed.

Jun 17, 2004 | 12:55 PM

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ken04

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Originally Posted by TrunkSlammer

Screw the egg, Stick a live chicken under it.

More cold air in will help build more hp.
Try sticking a block of dry ice in your intake...lol

The ice, dry or otherwise is actually pretty common amongst drag racers. Normally you have a ice filled canister that your fuel flows through prior to being injected, or sucked into your engine. If you could somehow put dry ice under, on, in between or otherwise in the intake manifold it could help immensely. The new Lightning is said to be around 500 HP, but there will be an intake aftercooler that will have freon pumped through for short bursts that is said to add 50-75 HP.

Jun 17, 2004 | 04:04 PM

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68 351 bronc

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How many HP to spin the air cond compressor to pump the R12 that will cool the intake charge? And when they say short burts I'm assuming they're talking the 12 seconds it's gona take to get the Lightning down the quarter!?

Jun 18, 2004 | 11:51 AM

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ken04

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I had the same questions when I heard of this. I heard that the Lightning gets a 50 or 60 hp boost with this supercooled charge of freon that is run through basically an intercooler type plenum in the intake manifold. But you're right, it does cost hp to run the compressor, I can feel it even with all the hp in the world in my V-10 (yuk-yuk). So I was wondering if it was part of the a/c system, it seems to me that you may gain 50, but lose 30 running the a/c compressor. So I haven't been able to find out yet exactly how it works, maybe it's a secret or something I dunno. In theory it's a cool (no pun intended) idea, in practice ??? And I haven't heard exactly how long "short bursts" is. Ken