62 valiant /6 turbo build
Maddart I like the idea about running a bypass switch in the cab of the car my controllerith is in the cab also so it would be easy
Aaron,
I am about as far from an automotive engineer as you can get, and still be able to drive a car.... I am really an ignoramous when it comes to thremodynamics as regards the internal combustion engine.
That doesn't mean that I don't have opinions, worthless though they may be...
MY OPINION, and this is just a guess, is that cooling the intake charge of an idling engine (like, in traffic) or one that's at VERY low throttle settings (like in traffic, at snail speeds) is not going to make much difference in overall engine temperatures.
What creates heat in low-rpm, low-power situations, I would think, is the exhaust flow out the exhauast ports, the heat transfer from the exhaust manfold (or, header) to the head, and the combustion process inside the cylinder.
If you have ignition (and, you will, or it will not run at all,) the burning gasoline will create a certain amount of heat, and the small temperature drop in the incoming charge, won't affect that burning, very much at all.
I can't see it having much effect on the overall engine temperature.
But, like I said; I am anything BUT a specialist in automotive (internal combustion) thermodynamics. I could be dead wrong... and, it wouldn't surprise me!
Maybe that college student who was on here a couple of weeks ago, talking about a theoretical engine project, will show up and give is HIS considered opinion. He was studying thermodynamics... Hope so... I REALLY don't know what I'm talking about; I just have a feeling that the burning gasses that heat up an engine aren't going to have their temperature affected THAT much, at an idle, with a meth or water spray... unless, you put the fire completely out, with too much spray...
My 2-cents.
Don't take it to the bank, though... as I said, it's just my uneducated opinion.
