Alcohol And Your Intercooler?

[stkjock]

Anyone ever hear of spraying rubbing alcohol and water on your intercooler between runs to cool it off more quickly?

going to a track rental Thursday and it's gonna be about 80* - looking for ideas to beat the heat soak!

(and Ron I'm bringing a cooler for ice!)

 

[don_w]

I can't see that doing much, if anything.

 

[94tbird]

anyone ever think of taking a can of compressed air, turning it upside down and spraying it on the intercooler to freeze it? That shit is so cold it can give you instant frostbite

 

[silverpoison]

windex...

 

[Fake_Snake]

RON.... dont you recall i was doing that .. LOL.. army supply is great i always sign out the air duster and when i knew i would be running at the track for the weekend..

NOW for the tech side of it.. I dunno if it worked if at all.. But i do know that i would use alot of the can and the I/C would get pretty cool.. Now if i sat there for a bit and got back out i touched the I/C it would heat back up..

I would spray when i was a few back in the staging lane.. if the flow was going good and there was no wait..

 

[thump_rrr]

Use a CO2 fire extinguisher.

I would strongly advise you make sure it's not a dry chemical extinguisher or you'll have one heck of a mess.

Halon is too expensive and harmful to the environment to use for cooling off an HE. That's the first thing I'd reach for though if I had a fire.

 

[stkjock]

Pete - thanks... a few days late! LOL

I actual contacted a welding supply house and the suggested a CO2 bottle 15lbs iirc with fittings and hose was gonna run me like $200 - i just couldn't get there during the store hours. maybe in the future.