Dry-Ice, cheap and fun performance enhancement!

[Conscript]

So, a few days ago me and a friend of mine were walking around the local Meijer when we noticed a freezer with dryice for sale. We had the neat idea of buying some to mess around with. When we got to his car, we decided to stick some to the side of his intake pipe with some saran wrap. The thought being that if air entering your engine at 70+ degress makes your car run like so, what would air entering at -50 degress do? well his car is a 95 honda civic 4 door with the 1.5l nonvtec pos engine. hes got a few mods on it(we always give him s--- about modding this specific car) when he redlines his car he can chirp the tires in 2nd gear, with the dry ice, he can do it in third.

so, its pretty fun if you have 89 cents and some spare time

[jschrauwen]

Hence the purpose and concept of CAI - Cold Air Intake. MX installers of CAI actually utizing a cold air source isolated from the engine bay will also see improved performance. The mere addition of a better open filter on the end of the stock tube or after market tubing and resideing in the engine compartment (most likely behind the rad and above the transmission) will actually achieve lesser performance than by retaining the original stock intake/breathing system. Original oem system was fairly close to a CAI as it was. Improving the seal between the plastic rad intake tubing to the airbox would also prove beneficial.

[DavidOS]

drag cars do this they use a couple methods some use co2 to cool air and others use dry ice

[xerostatus]

I found this on an issue of SCC a while back, at first i thought it was kinda interesting:

http://www.01designsystem.com/diis.html

But I kept reading on the website, i found out that you need to fill the compartment with dry ice, and that it would only last a few hours. The system itself costs a ridiculously large amount of money, and for a little performance gain for few hours... the cost.. the trouble...

[projectmx]

this is actually a trick from before most of us could legally drive... sitting around talking to older race and muscle car guys when i living in detroit i heard them talk about that in the past. another thing that helps is to simply re-route the coolant around your intake manifold... having hot coolant running through the IM will really heat up ther air

[jschrauwen]

An even better mod would be to have the coolant running into the TB thermostatically controlled so that it could remain a warm temp during the winter months to prevent TB icing but rerouted away during warmer summer months so as to not detract from performance. That would be an interesting mod.

[V8KOMX3]

j You have some of the strangest mod ideas I might have to see if I can find an effective way to do that. lol

[jkpgt96]

drag cars do this they use a couple methods some use co2 to cool air and others use dry ice

Yeah i think you can actually buy a C02 kit, which is similar in setup to a N20 kit...pretty cool stuff..