RE: Home made intercooler

["Livolsi, Stephane" <livols1@investorsgroup.com>]

Are you sure that a proportional amount of fuel is burned?  A gallon of
gas will have a certain amount of potential energy which is constant.
Very simply put, the only difference in how much engine power you get is
the amount of that energy that is wasted .  The more energy wasted as
heat, the less energy available to push the piston.  So if you could
reduce the temperature by using a colder charge, that would leave more
energy to push the piston.  What I am proposing  is the possibility that
the colder charge would free up more energy than what is used by the a/c
pump.  Hey it's just a theory but I think I might explore it a bit more
.... watch for a picture of me on the cover of popular mechanics....:)


Stephane Livolsi
180 Yorston St
Williams Lake, BC, V2G 3Z1
ph 250-392-2637
fax 250-392-2693

'86 5KTQ stock (if you don't know what it means, you aren't in the club)

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>From: 	Huw Powell[SMTP:audi@mediaone.net]
>Sent: 	December 6, 1999 5:40 PM
>To: 	Livolsi, Stephane
>Cc: 	'Audi Quattro List'
>Subject: 	Re: Home made intercooler
>
>> The big question of course is will the colder air give more power than
>> just burning the gas?  I don't know!  Any ideas?
>
>um, when you use more air to make more power, a proportional amount of
>fuel is burned at the same time...
>
>Why not just divert the A/C to full time intake charge cooling and have
>done with it?
>
>-- 
>Huw Powell
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