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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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