I know that keeping the ac belt on drains a little hp from the enging (parasitic loss i think it's called), but lowering the intake temp increases it, so my thoughts were this, reroute the ducting for the ac to the cold air box and use the AC to cool intake temps, etc...now the bigger question is would it work and if it did, would the gain be more than the parasitic loss!?



yeah i am trying to sound all intelligent like :P



Sean

 

I dunno, I know my AC just hammers my "get up and go" sometimes I play with it while accelerating and it's almost like the turbo spooling in when I turn it off.

 

ROFL, maybe i should hook mine back up...

 

why dont you just do the water injection mod that zerobanger posted

 

cuz then i'd still have pieces of AC that have no use DUH! :P

 

heck, just give it a shot! All it would take for a simple experimental setup would be a air box around the filter, sealed really well, and some cheap tube running from one of your a/c vents ("why do you have a bunch of duct tape on your dash?" "oh, no reason...")

 

I've heard of some newer car that does that...or maybe I'm crazy. The newer A/C systems don't drag down the engine nearly as much, if at all, so I'd think there'd be some gains to be had on a newer car, but it wouldn't hurt to try on your FC.

 

there's a new truck with a supercharger that uses that. I don't think it actually blows cold a/c air in the intake, I think it runs the intake air by the same kind of thing that cools the a/c air. I'm not hip on a/c components, so I'm not sure what makes the air cold, but I think that's what they use. Does that make sense?

 

Yeah, I should have been more specific. It doesn't force A/C air into the engine, it just cools the intake air. I guess I'm not so crazy after all.

 

mabye try piping it around the pipe...like a cooling duct around the pipe...



it may restrict flow and cause wierd flow charistics(sp?) at idle ect when the AC is forcing cold air into the engine...just a thought