>hmm.. glad to see this has got some people thinking... What I
>really wanted to do was basically freeze the intake pipe so
>the air coming in would be super cool, but doing this at idle
>stalls the engine... I was afraid to try it with the trottle
>down. Could this work? Use liquid oygen/nitrogen or
>tetrafluoroethane (liquid in compressed air cans) to chill the
>intake... I'm sure this would work on intercoolers, but I'm
>not turbo yet.


This has been discussed before. The reason it works on intercoolers is they are pushing a lot of air over a HUGE surface area (think of all those little fins) so their heat transfer rate is incredibly high. Your intake, however, is not going to give you that great of a heat transfer rate. So if you put an intercooler in line with your naturally aspirated intake system you could effectively do that, but, then you'd be trying to suck air through an intercooler which would be a HUGE restriction on your incoming air in the first place.


Dude, save your money for a turbo :)