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I was playing with the idea of using some chemistry to freeze the heck out of my air intake when I thought up the following idea.
Before I continue any further, I want to warn everyone that this idea is completely rediculous and probably wouldn't work and please do not try it in your garage because you are likely to blow your car into tiny pieces. With that disclaimer in mind...
I was thinking if I could create some sort of massive endothermic reaction that would cool the air fairly quickly, for a short performance increase...like nitrous except more complicated. haha.
This line of thinking led to reading about mixing salts (not table salt) with water. Commonly ammonium nitrate is mixed with water to freeze those intant cold packs (for injuries or whatever).
Heres where the trouble starts. Ammonium nitrate, as it happens, decays into Nitrous oxide with the addition of heat (!!!!) which would be amazing if you could feed that into a water injection system. Not only would it cool, it would ox up too. However, Ammonium Nitrate also happens to be a fairly intense explosive- especially when mixed with a fuel like gasoline. Uhh bad.
anyway, it has potential.
Before I continue any further, I want to warn everyone that this idea is completely rediculous and probably wouldn't work and please do not try it in your garage because you are likely to blow your car into tiny pieces. With that disclaimer in mind...
I was thinking if I could create some sort of massive endothermic reaction that would cool the air fairly quickly, for a short performance increase...like nitrous except more complicated. haha.
This line of thinking led to reading about mixing salts (not table salt) with water. Commonly ammonium nitrate is mixed with water to freeze those intant cold packs (for injuries or whatever).
Heres where the trouble starts. Ammonium nitrate, as it happens, decays into Nitrous oxide with the addition of heat (!!!!) which would be amazing if you could feed that into a water injection system. Not only would it cool, it would ox up too. However, Ammonium Nitrate also happens to be a fairly intense explosive- especially when mixed with a fuel like gasoline. Uhh bad.
anyway, it has potential.
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