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Old 11-27-2014, 11:15 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by fujioko View Post
]]The intake air temp is another experiment that will get done this winter. The B3 Miata really loves cold air and I did some experiments by bypassing the throttle body heat and found a bunch of power. On the other side of the heat scale I plumbed in a liquid to air heat exchanger. The Miata engine snorkeled +170F air 100% of the time. The car ran like crap and and lost a bunch of power. I'm sure there is a happy medium or some tricks that can be done.


The B3 Miata snorkeling uber hot air through a heat exchanger. I got the idea from another forum and gave it a try. This is definitely a dyno experiment in the near future

Thanks for the comments and feel free to keep adding to the idea list.

Jim
A few of our members used a heater core in the air box as their intake air heater. That is a low dollar alternative to using an after cooler.
I say do a manually controlled experiment on your dyno, find the sweet spot and use automation to maintain your sweet spot set point and then install a Normally open valve to shut off hot coolant flow for when you need power.
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