[Juntech]

So summer's almost here and last weekend was one of those first nice few days of the year, about 76-82 degrees F. Noticed the car didn't pull quite as hard as during the beginning of spring, around 50-60 degrees F.

It gets pretty insanely hot and humid here in MA. Are we going to lose a lot of power to the heat? Does a larger intercooler fix this?

The STi's ive had before all felt sluggish and average in the summer time.

 

[DreadlyST]

Upgrade your IC and it shouldn't effect you as much.

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[Etyrnus]

Duct tape a person of diminutive stature to your bumper to pour ice water thru the IC while driving? J/k.

I know my cobalt SS wasn't as fun during the summer, and it had air to water IC. Warm weather just isn't as much fun.

 

[94Gt5.0]

"HP air" is just about gone for the season. Tis the season of hook now!

 

[airjor13]

I never understood why some hi-po car use air to water intercoolers, I guess its a packaging thing but man is it inefficient

The new M3/M4/M5 all have it, just makes me SMH....so much potential wasted.

 

[Etyrnus]

I never understood why some hi-po car use air to water intercoolers, I guess its a packaging thing but man is it inefficient

The new M3/M4/M5 all have it, just makes me SMH....so much potential wasted.

I know on the cobalt I was the supercharged version that used air to water, the turbo ones were air based. With a roots style blower an air to air isn't practical.

 

[the duke]

I never understood why some hi-po car use air to water intercoolers, I guess its a packaging thing but man is it inefficient

The new M3/M4/M5 all have it, just makes me SMH....so much potential wasted.

Water has a high specific heat.

 

[airjor13]

Water has a high specific heat.

Yes true but that also means once water reaches that specific heat range, it is more likely to retain that heat, thus it does not disperse the heat very well = always warm / hot charge air temperature for the car

 

[airjor13]

No doubt ice is nice when there is a supply of ice, but it always ends up melting lol, then you need more ice with more power and more heat! For purpose built cars, iced water to air might work, but for the average street car, water to air set-up tend to leak / break with age, and over complicate things with complex packaging. Different purpose, different strokes I guess.

 

[kjburns]

It gets pretty insanely hot and humid here in MA.

Dude, puhleeze...MA gets kinda warm compared to AZ. We took out motorhome to a wedding in Phoenix last July. With 3 ACs running our inside temp was roughly your record high.

 

[aar0nsky]

Water meth ftw.

 

[Tanner]

Yup. Meth inject it. I live in az. Right now it's about 90 outside. Flip the meth kit on and I see majical numbers for my charge temp.

 

[BlueBomber]

I live in Los Angeles. It's 100. And it was 100 yesterday. and the day before.

IAT and charge temps suck today

Has anyone done the classic SR20 trick of converting a washer bottle squirter into an IC sprayer?