Can you use any liquids other than water in a water to air intercooler

Piss..... AND cum

It's like the air/fuel balance OP

>>17452661
You could probably use some sort of water wetter to improve heat transmission but surely manufacturers would have already done it if it were advantageous.
Setting up a water spray on the radiator might make a difference.
Going to water/meth injection would be the next step in keeping charge air cool

Freon

>>17452661
>I.e. methanol or liquid nitrogen?
no thats dumb
water has a very high specific heat or heat density so it can absorb lots of energy before it gets hot, which is good for cooling

methanol has a lower specific heat, and is flammable on top of that so it wouldn't be a very good coolant

liquid nitrogen wouldn't be any good either since it wouldn't stay liquid, the thing that makes liquid nitrogen so cold is the phase change from a liquid to a gas (just like freon in an air-conditioner) so in order to make it work you'd need to compress it back to a liquid which isn't easy

>>17452966
and on top of this, it doesn't even address the flaws with water to air heat exchangers

>>17452661
this looks incredibly inefficient.

>>17452661
I know some boiracers spray water on the intercooler, to take advantage of evaporative cooling to squeeze a little more performance out of it. Does it work any better than painting your intercooler black? Who knows.

>>17453006
>painting your intercooler black
this actually worsens cooling

>>17452661
No. Water has a breddy good heat capacity. The only thing better would probably be an ammonia solution of some kind and that has a lot of problems on its own (super poisonous).

>>17453022
Yes but it adds 5hp

>>17453006
No. For several reasons:
1. Most of the intercoolers emission isn't in the visible spectrum.
2. Painting it adds contact resistance as well as insulation. It now performance worse regardless.

>>17452989
Which are?

>>17453006
>Rattlecanning the intercooler

Here's why that's wrong

https://youtu.be/z_mmmXTbLP0

>>17453083
the big one is that you have less distance to remove the heat, and less surface area on the actual intake cooler than a conventional intercooler, on top of that it's often heavier than a simpler air to air set up since you now have two heat exchangers and a bunch of water to lug around

there's plenty of stuff out there. go look up NaK (sodium+potassium metal) its used on some more extreme nuclear reactors
its just that water is cheap, not dangerous like 2 alkali metals at the same time, and really, really good at its job.

>>17453232
>NaK
the NaK would probably erode away the coolers from the inside out, and then burst into flames when it hit the open air

>>17453278
it wouldnt erode the cooler, given that neither of those bond with copper.
there are cpu coolers with NaK inside their heatpipes, and they're going strong with a 0% failure rate.
although youre just asking for trouble, and that water is much, much more stable, its doable and not a problem.

>>17453278
>>17453288
especially for a cpu, it works more as a fad than anything else, but it works, i guess
this is the cooler btw http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/danamics-lmx-superleggera-(liquid-metal)-cpu-cooler-review.html

>>17453232
>>17453278
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>>17453297
Guys... Can I I have clear coolant hoses with led in them in my engine bay to look cool?

>>17453128
Aren't air to water much more efficient and effective at cooling though?

>>17453396
yeah, its the modern form of herpes, surprised cars havent caught it yet
or actually they have, show cars at the very least.
looks hideous 2bh.

>>17453402
No, they have more heat capacity though.