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Re:Tesla racing series: Electric cars get the green light – ... by ortusdux on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:14PM (#16295022)
I was surprised to learn about the 2018 Dodge Demon's SRT power chiller. It uses the car's refrigerant to cool down the supercharger. On race day you actually have to turn off your AC. The whole car is insane, especially considering that it is street legal and may of its owners will be using it as a daily driver.
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Re:Tesla racing series: Electric cars get the green light – ... by rootusrootus on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:38PM (#16295132)
That's an idea that dates back quite a ways. Ford had a prototype F150 Lightning that used A/C to temporarily cool down the intercooler and gain something like 30-50 horsepower for around 30 seconds at a time. Unfortunately Ford elected instead to just kill the Lightning altogether at that point.
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Re:Tesla racing series: Electric cars get the green light – ... by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday February 02, 2018 @09:31PM (#16295808)
Great idea, surprised I haven't seen this as a street legal mod.

You would only need to sandwich the intercooler between the hot and cold heat exchangers with a (fairly powerful) automotive refrigerant pump connect to them. The cold heat exchanger would go in front of the intercooler.

I'm going to start talking about this to some enthusiasts I know and see if I can convince one of them to do it.

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Re:Tesla racing series: Electric cars get the green light – ... by icelancer on Saturday February 03, 2018 @05:09AM (#16296998)
>> Great idea, surprised I haven't seen this as a street legal mod.

It was a homebrew hack by people in the Honda Civic / del Sol community decades ago, I recall it fondly.

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Re:Tesla racing series: Electric cars get the green light – ... by dharmab on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:45PM (#16295160)
How many owners are going to be swapping between the drag radials/skinny front wheels and daily driver tires? Or willing to deal with the mileage?
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Re:Tesla racing series: Electric cars get the green light – ... by LeonM on Saturday February 03, 2018 @05:13AM (#16297008)
That's nothing new, my Jaguar XJ12 from '84 uses it's AC to cool down the fuel in the return line.
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