Recent content by boostm3

Michael, a very intellegent viewpoint :) For those who still think that Methanol cools as well, or better than water, here are the facts, like them or not: Gasoline has a latent heat between 350-500 kJ/kg, water has 2257kJ/kg and methanol has 1109kJ/kg. Therefore if removal of heat is...

>>Maybe a good cold air intake is what you need<< Already got one! It comes with the SC kit, and comprises a K&N mounted down near the wheel well, beneath the engine bay. But, by the time the flow gets through the heat soaked intake tubing, its over 150 degrees. Dont forget..on our cars, the...

>>Just curious, but looking at your intake tract, is there a way for air to completely bypass the blower?<< Absolutely. Theres a hose that runs from the intake tube on the output side of the blower, to the tube on the intake side of the blower. This serves the bypass in two ways: it provides...

Hey Cool84.... I think your explanation might be part of it. However, dont forget, mine and the better centrifugal blowers use a bypass valve. Which means, I thought, that at vacuum levels, much of the air would be bypassing the blower, right? I thought bypass valves served two main...

I usually post over in the alky injection section, since, while our cars may be different, we at least share that technology. But I also share something in common with you guys: I have no intercooler! Thus, my '99 M3 with Vortech blower, which Ive boosted to 11 psi courtesy of water injection...

>>Just wondering but have you read the rulebook for the ralley cars<< 1bad, you bring up an interesting point. I dont have the answer for you. BTW, I trust you accepted the information I posted proving that water is the better coolant vis a vis the difference in the Latent Heat of...

>>Windshield wash mixture amounts vary, 20-50%... I'd say 30% is the norm.<< Windshield wash mixture is ideal if you like running water/methanol solutions like I do. The only problem is that I have yet to see any of the bottles with content labels which give actual percentages; just substances.

Razor, >>See if your intake air temps go to 170+ degrees..its very hot and will ping with whatever gas you use. Hence why I can run those air temps..cuase the alky cools the charge down big time...in this particular case alcohol works better than racegas...<< Thats what I find on my car...

Guys, just place your orders with http://www.buyracegas.com/ . Easy, convenient, not too expensive. The 5 gal size is pretty convenient too. Let me know how you make out..

>>BLAH,... BLAH,.... ......BLAH............... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ<< Now thats what I call an intellegent comment :D Brilliant, reallly... Guess ol 'Redregal needed to put all his braincells to work to come up with that one. And, the nice thing is, it adds Soo Much to the...

Cool84, that sounds like an excellent explanation. Thats one of the main reasons we add alcohol to the water to begin with. As you said, I believe its true that while the alcohol doesnt provide as much overall cooling as water does, in the short time alloted to it before its entry to the...

>>Now Water alone being added to the combustion cycle will only absorb heat inside the cylinder and is simply replacing some of the space taken up by the air fuel mixture which actually makes the power<< Im not sure I understand what you mean when you say 'Water alone being added to the...

>>Boostm3 likes to debate but not do any work himself? You constantly contradict yourself. If it's easy to change the seals for alky then just do it! Don't play years of debating, JUST DO IT! Then you won't need 500 pieces of correspondence before acting. Paralisis by over analysis.<< I have...

>>BoostM3, try 100% methanol for two tanks and let us know how it works<< Crazi, thats a perfectly fair suggestion. And honestly, Id really like to try it. But, do you know how expensive the Aquamist pumps are? Theyre something like 4 or 500 bucks. And honestly, even though if the seals...

>>My car is 9:1 and I run upwards of 26 PSI on it through a factory intercooler and a bone stock motor. Factory pressure is 16 PSI<< God bless low static CRs :) We're both seeing similar increases: Youre running 10 psi over stock; Im running 11 psi over stock, seeing as my car, stock, is NA...