Naah ... they start you in a fuel class expecting you to have a leak.
Wes
on 11/27/01 1:50 PM, Clay, Dale at Dale.Clay@mdhelicopters.com wrote:
> So then if your intercooler springs a leak you bump up to the fuel class???
>
> Dale C. :)
>
>
> Subject: RE: Cold Intake
>
>
> Another suggestion is to use alcohol and dry ice. Cool the alcohol in a dry
> ice bath and then spray the alcohol on the intercooler. Flammability
> considerations might make this undesireable but alternately the alcohol
> could be injected directly into the intercooler intake to cool the incoming
> charge well below ambient. Dry ice is easy to handle and store-- a foam
> cooler is all that is required. The simplist approach might be to use the
> alcohol as fuel to run the engine, too, and dispense with gasoline
> altogether. Otherwise, it probably would need a method of adjusting the
> gasoline/air mixture to the lean side to compensate for the alcohol added to
> the incoming charge. I haven't tried it, though....has anyone else heard of
> someone trying this?
>
> Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
>
>
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