Re: Just a thought about how to cool the inlet air
After reading the notes above it seems that there are many others plowing this field.
For Brian if he had a 1 gallon of water at 32 degrees and it adsorbed enough heat to get up to 212 degrees it only gained 1520 BTU. If you started with 8 # of Ice you get an additional 144 btu per pound of a total of 1152 btu or an overall heat gain of 2672 btu's. To go from Ice( 8# of the melted equivalent of about 1 gallon) to 80 degree water would be only 1536 btu.
In the same time your a/c generates about 12,000 per hour or 200 btu per minute. This is beginning to look tougher. Lets see if the a/c cools 200 btu per minute and the water flow is 5 gallons per minute ( my wag but youll correct my numbers ) that is 40 # of water per minute or a total of 5 degrees drop.
QED: I have shot my own idea down, Tadaa
Ok but on the other hand I really do not see that the intercooler flows thru the water tank, there are common inlet and outlet connections; however the pumps circulate in their own circuits and I wonder how much actual fluid is intermingled, swap spit as it were.
I do come back on to my original plan to get a cooler engine via a better tstat. I have most of that and need to adjust the computer so that the fan will run and drop the block temp. Typically I get the temp needle to the second mark or a full mark below the middle.
As spock's computer used to say: Working!
Happy fathers day, enjoy Woody
PS Brian what was your delta on the tank design versis the stock set-up?