Anyone else have a GREAT drive to work today?

Post Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:47 am

I LOVE the cold!!!

8'c here when I left my house @ 8, car started up on first turn of the crank and puuuuuurrrrrreeeddddd

Had the laptop out to see what's going on and could see all was well, so opened her right up and boy does the bitch like it cold! LOL

@ WOT, 5k, 10.5psi, 1??mph i had IAT's on ZERO'c! LOL

I struggled to get the beast warm, was happy around 60'c CLT temp, even with heaters off.

Am so looking forward to the drive home, just hope it stays cold

Post Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:17 am

nice once mark. you've got me itching for boost again. shouldn't be long now, the engine seems to be running in well!

Post Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:25 am

Mark you naughty boy !!!

Post Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:16 pm

good man! my white knuckle ride to work consists of me weaving in and out of traffic and putting the 172bhp i have to good use... had some mug the other day in a golf get right up my ass on the ringroad( ass meaning close to my rear bumper) so i glanced at the person who could only be described as a mug and put her in second and planted it... he tried... i got up to 80(in third) looked again.... nothing... he pulls up to the lights on my right and dosent even glance at me... the mug....

Post Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:58 pm

I'm not allowed to tell you many of the stories I have massed over the 8 years I've been working here.

Lets say I know the road really well, even with that I pick my opportunities very carefully and only abuse cars/bikes if it's worth it.

I like to explain to people that I fitted a mangnifying glass in the rear screen, that's why everything looks soo small!

Picked up a wireless card for my laptop this morning, now I can surf and boost all the way home!!

Will get the camera up and sorted too, live streaming video anyone?? LOL

Post Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:25 pm

fozzymonster wrote:Will get the camera up and sorted too, live streaming video anyone?? LOL

Better than big brother any day of the week

Post Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:12 pm

So is eye surgery with blunt spoons though to be fair.

Post Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:27 pm

Fair point

Post Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:12 pm

Fozzy i saw you on the way home from work on either wednesday or thursday near felixstowe! i was coming the other way on the a14

Post Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:58 pm

I might be missing somthing here but if IAT stands for Inlet Air Temp how can you get the air in the inlet lower that the air outside if you intercoolers loosing its heat to the ouside air a 8c surly you could only get it to 8c and that would be getting harer to do as the closer to the same temp the air gets the lower the rate of heat trasferd gets???

or does wind chill acount for that?

Just a question not trying make you sound wrong

My car loves the cold summer mornings realy early when its misty before the sun burns off the cloud

Post Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:35 pm

Wind chill is the key to that, from the sig pic that intercooler gets plenty of air rammed through it

My old nova

used to love a cold and damp day, but only if i was giving it a pasteing, if i was driving steady the weber used to ice up

Post Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:22 pm

appletree wrote:I might be missing somthing here but if IAT stands for Inlet Air Temp how can you get the air in the inlet lower that the air outside if you intercoolers loosing its heat to the ouside air a 8c surly you could only get it to 8c and that would be getting harer to do as the closer to the same temp the air gets the lower the rate of heat trasferd gets???

or does wind chill acount for that?

Just a question not trying make you sound wrong

My car loves the cold summer mornings realy early when its misty before the sun burns off the cloud

Due to the sizes of the charge pipes and intercooler the setup usually keeps cruzin IAT's about 1 or 2'c lower. This increases with boost and it can drop 10'c or so and creep back up towards the end of the rev range.

That log was from this week and outside temps were about 8'c.

I guess it means these big IC's too work, although it takes a little longer to fill them up so there's a litte lag to start with, keep over 4k and it's instant boost.

Fozz.

Post Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:51 pm

Thanks for explaining, so in theary you could see minus IAT???

And frosted boost pipes?

Post Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:30 pm

appletree wrote:Thanks for explaining, so in theary you could see minus IAT???

And frosted boost pipes?

In that pic above it shows -1.1'c IAT's already acheived!

It's shown as MAT, it's fitted behind the TB plate, so that's actual air in temp, something that's shown me how much of a heat range motors can take. That's 55'c down to -1.1'c now.

Are you sorted in the IAT's dept?

Fozz