cool idea for cooling the crap out of your engine

[n2orbit]

my friend works for a medical supply place .. the other night we brought home liquid oxygen. i was wondering if i could spray this on my ic or in my ic pipes or somethin.. its 20-30 below 0 so its defenitly cold

 

[dthquazi1]

personally i would try it but i would be very carefull about how much is sprayed. My biggest fear would be freezing it and cracking the piping.

 

[n2orbit]

does anyone know how cold c02 is??? i wanna try it , i think i would be a cool idea. and actually have some good gains

 

[eclipsegsx9797]

ya but for how long will it stay that cold, what u going to spray it like every ten min. but it does sound like a good idea. my best beat would be spraying the radiator too

 

[Hooah]

i have co2 it sprays -80 you spray it about 5 seconds before you launch...its sticky so itll stay there awhile, if you dotn think it did then just spray all the way down the track, if i get ahold of my friend i could possibly make you one...hes givin up the biznass ...so depending on that...

ps nothing gets broke

 

[gixrman]

Spraying it inside would lean you out big time. Spraying it outside would be scary since o2 is an excelerant. Visions of huge car fire. I bevieve it would have the same properties as Nitrious.

 

[Hooah]

you spray your ic, no explosions...very nice actually

 

[greyforestgst]

www.intercoolertechniques.com
twitch here on the forums runs it

 

[eclipsegsx9797]

o so is that what them intercoller nitrous kits are they just spray some co2 over the fmic to help cool, is that safe. anyone know if it actually made numbers thanks

 

[n2orbit]

from what i was told liquid oxygen is colder than co2. u can spray it on a peice of bread and the bread will be like a rock throw it down and it busts into a bunch of peices

 

[rabidfox]

lets' take some time out to do a bit of basic chemistry. An explosion needs an oxidizer and an accelerant. Oxygen is an oxidizer, duh, so spraying half of an explosive on your IC is dumb. It would be like spraying fuel, because it can be cold too. Spray N20 or spray CO2, Don't spray oxygen, please. Don't spray it inside the IC piping either, that would be like spraying N20 of an unknown quantity without fuel support. Stick to known ways of making power, unless you want to experiment on your own dime, but then again, if you were doing that you wouldn't be asking us, huh?

 

[Defiant]

Best for lighting barbecues, but sadly, telling about it is good for lighting server fires. George's site is closed, dammit.

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/Ambrosia_Times/September_95/2.5HowTo.html

 

[rabidfox]

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/Ambrosia_Times/September_95/Art/GrillIgnition.gif

as Defiant said, in his own way, this ^^ is your car on liquid oxygen, 'nuff said.

 

[steve]

Back in the dark ages, we had someone come to school for a science demo. One thing he did was put a tiny spot of grease on a piece of filter paper and soaked it in LOX. After a second to allow most of the LOX to flash off he hit it with a hammer and you should have heard the explosion. It rocked the room.
Venting LOX under the hood of a car is a really bad idea. Stick with NOS or CO2 or if that's not cold enough try liquid helium it boils at -268.93 C.

Steve

 

[Plague]

DONT YOU DARE!!! LOX isnt something to just play with. I cant believe what I just read, your like kids with a gun. I work with the stuff and there is a reason why we wear protective gear when servicing our LOX converters. Why dont you have a smoke while your at it.

Let that stuff boil off and forget that you even heard of it.

 

[FASTSPOOLINGST]

I agree with the dude above. I am in the AirForce and handle lox all the time. It is -297 degrees F. Cold stuff. We use aluminum drain pans and aluminum containers when draining lox out of the carts we use. It is fine, but builds up snow when exposed too long. Lox is some nasty stuff man, also, it is a liquid, it will not spray in the form of a mist through a tiny nozzle, or tube with holes in it, it will get clogged up and it will freeze up the holes and it will then not work until you pour some hot water on it again. Basically, it's pointless. Go with Nitrous, you can get it a kit that is made for it and is probably a hell of a lot safer. Also, lox is combustable around ignition sources and greese/dirt. Not too smart to have it near an engine.

Peace Out

 

[Hooah]

co2 = colder and less expensive, and twitch was who i was talkin about...i think he is giving it up

he said he ran 2 mph faster and 4 tenths faster

dyno proven on a supra for like 60 rwhp gain

this stuff works

 

[FASTSPOOLINGST]

True Dat.

Peace

 

[jake98gst]

NX N-tercooler had the same 50-60 whp gains on a turbo civic.

Jake

 

[n2orbit]

ok i see the point it was just a idea i really didn't know much about it thats why i figured i would post it. i mean i know it was really cold and if there was a way to run it on the car i think it would be awsome. it was just a idea . i wasn't really going to hook the shit up without knowing alot about it.

 

[FiReBReTHa]

just curious, in what applications is LOX used, ive never heard of it but its something id like to know a bit more

 

[steve]

Sounds like it's time for a google search.

Two main applications, cryogenics and as an oxidizer. Want to see something that uses a lot of LOX look up the space shuttle and Saturn V.

Steve

 

[FASTSPOOLINGST]

lox is not only used on the space shuttle and Saturn V. It is used on the majority of all aircraft. including helicopters. You know when u see movies like on top gun and crap when they put on that mask. Well this is when they are breathing 100 % pure oxygen vice the normal oxygen we breathe in the atmosphere. lox (liquid oxygen) on aircraft is heated via a heat exchanger and warmed to a breathable temperature that the crew and passengers can breathe. Another example is when the masks drop down out of the ceiling when a plane is going to crash, this is emergency oxygen and is lox that is boiled off and heated. Lox has such a high expansion ratio, something like 330 to 1, that is why it is used on aircraft instead of gaseous oxygen. Aircrafts have what are called lox converters which is where the lox is filled up onto the aircraft and it is stored.

 

[FiReBReTHa]

studly.

very good responses. thanks guys.

is the converter too large for LOX to be used in scuba diving, cause i would then imagine that that would increase the time available for divers to be underwater because they would be able to 'carry more' oxy with them.

as for the other stuff.

which is cheaper, Nitrous or CO2 to purge? cause that should play a large factor as well.

 

[jake98gst]

CO2 is a shitload cheaper. Check with any paintball store.