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Old 2004-03-15, 04:10 PM   #8
sperry
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Originally Posted by zrallyman
well, he has an expensive hot air intake, and an ugly c/f hood.
Don't you know that the hotter the intake, the more efficient your boost fluid becomes?

Well to a point, at about 200 C, boost fluid begins to harmonate with the turbo's fusler spindel, resulting in fluid spin-out where the boostonium particulates vaporize leaving your boost fluid flat and inactive. I run synthetic boost fluid, so I can hang to about 220 C before spin-out, which is why I run a modified insta-hot on my coolant hose and a reverse air-to-water intercooler to keep my intake temps up.
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