Thread: Killer Chiller - intercooling option
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 09:21 PM
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Talking Re: Killer Chiller - intercooling option
You have to question the church. . . . . . .Killer chiller, Not.

Please note the cool tank is at idle, not under boost.

The video did not show intake air cooling at WOT, just driving about . . . . .

The air at the registers were below 20 degrees, HOW you ask. That is an infrared pyrometer, or non contact temperature gun. You measure temps by sensing the amount of long infrared light given off by all objects above absolute zero.

You can not measure the temps with the cold air blowing into the end of the gun, you have - should - sense or measure off axis to keep the air out of the business end of the "gun".
My vents are 40-55 on a cool day, never below 32 degrees or else it will freeze the condensate and FREEZE OVER, a bad thing.

Your home has a 2 to 5 ton A/C system, which means that it removes 2 x 12,000 to 5 x 12,000 btus per hour.

Our cars have a cooling capacity of about 1 ton or 12,000 btus per hour which is about 200 btus of cooliing per hour. 200 btus per minute will cool 200 pounds of water ONE degree per minute. 200 pounds of water is about 25 gallons. If your cooling 2 gallons, that could be 2 x 8pounds per gallon or 16 pounds of water. With a capacity of 200 btus per minute that would be able to cool the 16 pounds about 12 degrees - per minute.

SOOOO that would cool a couple of gallons of water 12 per minute max, and that is not counting that the water is also being heated by the I/C. I posted this idea LONG TIME ago, and then countered my thinking after I did my math.

Of course the last thing you can expect is for the A/C to run at WOT, it is cut out. There is a reason, for the engine at 6000RPM is whirling the compressor way faster. IT will blow up big time. I was feeling giddy and shifted to third one day long time ago in my pinto at about 7000-7500 with the A/C on and the cloud of Freon was way visible in a hurry as the rods in the A/C left the case. I used to buzz that modified pinto up to close to 9000 in autocrossing, to keep the 4.11 : 1 going on the straights. Wide open throttle is bad for A/C compressors, boom.

This is as viable as the "electric supercharger". The both work, they just done work well enough to be worth the cost of admission. Enjoy.

Woody
 
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