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Originally Posted by sperry
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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
That looks like an unprotected driveshaft going across the engine compartment, jesus... How could this accident have been avoided... 
And my guess would be the temperature rise from air in the engine bay vs. a fenderwell for example is negligible compared to the temperature rise from compression. Like maybe 10-15 degrees vs. 100-200 degrees... just pulled those numbers out of my a55, but temp. gain from compression is usually quite a bit. I could do some heat transfer calcs on it... well... no, never mind I don't feel like putting out that kind of effort.  |
But w/o an intercooler, lowering the initial air temp is the only way to lower the charged temp... might as well get that initial air as close to ambient as possible, right? That charger's gonna get pretty hot, and will heat up that area of the engine bay pretty well... I'd rather be pulling my air from outside if possible. 'Course, I dunno how the Integ's arflow from thru the radiator is, so that area of the compartment might be pretty well cooled...
BTW: Austin, this pic's from the AMLS race at Seca... you've seen this car in person! |
hmmm where to begin. first off every degree counts on a turbo but not so much a supercharger. yes the compression from a super raises temperature but nothing like a turbo. obviously. all the centrifugal superchargers i have felt you can touch the housing because they dont get very hot. roots blowers get alot hotter.
an intercooler on a supercharger is called an aftercooler. dont ask why, it makes no sense.
and the reason tht catastrophic driveshaft exists. is because honda thought they were fucking cool by spinning the motor backwards. so the intake is in the back and then they thought it would also be a good idea to put the drivebelt on the tight side of the compartment.
honda strikes again, fucking geniuses.