Originally posted by ???
I don't think the intercooler its self is a power adder, just how its cooled.
there's no trade off with using dry ice. and its an outside source, which makes it a adder to power.
now a big air to air, hanging off the front. there would be loses due to aero and psi drop because of the size needed to cool the amount of air there pushing thru. and you didn't just introduce a 2nd source of power........I.e., dry ice. even with just water you would need a heat exchanger in the wind some where.
I agree with you. Another thing I thought about over the weekend that would settle this pretty quick. Would someone in a naturally aspirated class be allowed to use some sort of igloo cooling box with ice water/dry ice to super cool the air as it enters the motor? Probably not, logically, that would make it a power adder
