Excellent Web Site

[Cam]

This web site may well be well know to others here but I have just stumbles accross it.

It is so good I tought I would recommend it to anyone interested in technical (easy reading though) articles about cars.

The site is www.autospeed.com.au

A couple of the excellent articles are:

Tyres, Grip and all that: http://www.autospeed.com.au/A_0996/page1.html

Power VS Torque 1: http://www.autospeed.com.au/A_0755/page1.html

Power VS Torque 2: http://www.autospeed.com.au/A_0744/page1.html

Boost Terms: http://www.autospeed.com.au/A_0770/page1.html

Intercooler: http://www.autospeed.com.au/A_0527/page1.html

There are literally hundreds of others as well...

I found that even things I thought I knew..well I was not quite correct.

Very good articles

Cam

[Guest JESMAL]

The article on the water spray for intercoolers is pretty interesting. It got me interested in the product but then after driving an STi Type R with water sprayed front mounted BLITZ intercooler way back, I found the water spray to be not very effective in reducing intercooler temp., not saying that it does not but the results do not justify the price of the water spray system. Still, I'll be interested to see how this would help in my XR.

Thanks for posting the urls....very useful stuff indeed

[Cam]

If you have a read of the intercooler atricles (there are about 5 - I only posted a link to the first) it is quite interesting.

They agree with you that a normal water spray uses too much water - and whats worse - uses it at the wrong time resulting in little or no benifit. BUT they then say that the new control system gives excellent results.

Also the cost for the project as listed is only a couple of hundred dollars - sound resonable to me.

[red_rex]

I have found intercooler water spray to be quite effective - you really notice it on a stinking hot day when your turbo car is very sluggish.

The following link gives some technical info -

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~petermca/te...est_session.htm

RR.