Has anyone tried putting a brick of dry ice in the airbox next to the filter?

What happens?
or what would happen? - for the technical gurus

 

Not a very good idea as CO2 will try to work against the engine's combustion and your car will want to choke.

 

Dry Ice = Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

Just as they use CO2 to kill pigs in a slaughter house (suffication), it will also kill your engine.

 

Like they said, your car won't run.

You want to put the dry ice ON the airbox. (Intake manifold as well.)

 

Add ice cream and a banana and you would have a really cold banana split?

 

what the

 

Is this fooooor real?

 

I think you fail to understand the amount of airflow going through that engine and the rate at which heat can be pulled out of it from the sides.

 

Well, the computer would read the extra oxygen (unmetered by MAP) as a lean condition, and adjust the fuel trim to accommodate. It would overcompensate and dump fuel into the cylinders, and the overly rich AFR would cool the combustion chamber. So, if his goal was to cool the incoming air and/or the engine, the dry ice mod would work.

I've also read great things about the Tornado airbox mod, as seen on TV. It would help counter the shitty fuel mileage caused by the unnecessarily rich air/fuel mixture.