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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
That looks like an unprotected driveshaft going across the engine compartment, jesus... How could this accident have been avoided... 
And my guess would be the temperature rise from air in the engine bay vs. a fenderwell for example is negligible compared to the temperature rise from compression. Like maybe 10-15 degrees vs. 100-200 degrees... just pulled those numbers out of my a55, but temp. gain from compression is usually quite a bit. I could do some heat transfer calcs on it... well... no, never mind I don't feel like putting out that kind of effort.  |
But w/o an intercooler, lowering the initial air temp is the only way to lower the charged temp... might as well get that initial air as close to ambient as possible, right? That charger's gonna get pretty hot, and will heat up that area of the engine bay pretty well... I'd rather be pulling my air from outside if possible. 'Course, I dunno how the Integ's arflow from thru the radiator is, so that area of the compartment might be pretty well cooled...
BTW: Austin, this pic's from the AMLS race at Seca... you've seen this car in person!