Piping a/c into CAI box

[Coolbreezin]

I was reading about the benefits of the CAI's and such and it got me thinking. Im a motorcycle guy so the way we chilled our gas was to pipe is through dry ice in a can. So that made me wonder if an a/c tube was piped into the CAI box would it help. I understand the driver would turn the a/c off when really beating on the car, but I mean for everyday city terrorizing.
What do yall think?

 

[carsNskis]

Do eeeet

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[Italianjoe1]

Not enough difference to be noticeable. You need an air-water system to use something like the Killer Chiller, on an air-air system there's no way to get enough heat transfer to make a measurable difference, unless you put some sort of evaporator in the intake system, and even then, the a/c compressor power draw would probably exceed the gain in power from cool intake temps.

 

[JesusTheAgnostic]

It can't hurt to try. Just make sure you dyno with the same intake before and after you start rerouting stuff.

 

[shibbs]

You're killing more power running the AC compressor than you're making using the cold air.

 

[Natesriv]

no... thermal dynamics, a hot engine always wins. There's not enough force from the blower to cool down the intake pipe and the intake to be noticeable.

 

[carsNskis]

They did it in the dodge demon....

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[rodslinger]

What do yall think?

Dodge does this now with the Dodge Demon in drag mode. They placed an evaporator in with the air/water heat exchanger for the supercharger. It chills the liquid for a cooler intake charge.

It would work best if you went to a similar air/water intercooler so that the liqiid in the heat exchanger could be chilled during normal driving and that chilled water only be used during high load needs for a few seconds.