Hey guys/girls. Well the other day I was looking at my CO2 tanks that I have for my paint ball guns and had a bit of an idea. I want to make a IC sprayer and fire suppression system out of my CO2 tanks, or will probably just get bigger tanks after I fab things up and see if it works. I was hoping to make the sprayer thermoswitch controled by using an intake temp sensor right infront of the TB so that she would spray the IC when the temps got higher than I wanted. But the problem I'm having is that I dont know what kind of lines/metal lines I should run from the bottles to handle the coldness of the CO2. I know that I could just buy a laughing gas system but I want to be cheaper and fab it up my self. I take pride in actually building something rather than buying a kit and just hanging parts. Although I know that I will need the Nitrous solenoids for the system but I need idea's on other components. I've never messed with Nitrous systems and dont know what components are made of in the systems. This is pretty much exatcly the same just the end of the system is different (i.e. - spray CO2 on the IC and fire suppression rather than injecting Nitrous). Any idea's, comments, critiques, or even flames are welcome. Just give me some feedback.

P.S. - oh and for fire suppression I mean under the hood not in-cabin. My main concern about this is in a fire temps are of course REALLY high. So the influx of CO2 might cause critical compents to cool to quickly and crack - turbo, engine "block", etc.

Thanks in advance all.

 

Why not just make your cooling system work correctly? There's something wrong if you need to spray your intercooler to cool it down.

 

Why not just make your cooling system work correctly?

The cooling system is fine. But I do live in Las Vegas/Sin City Nevada. And the temps during the summer get down to say 90ish at night and 115 during the normal day. And this is mainly a fire supression system/test to see how well it would work. (No, I am not planning on setting my engine bay on fire to test it either) And since I will be already running lines etc. for the fire system why not run lines and an extra solenoid to be able to spray the IC?

There's something wrong if you need to spray your intercooler to cool it down.

How exactly does the cooling system effect the intercooler being a heat sync? During a track session being able to cool down the intercooler and also lower intake temps in the process would = more power, faster times and a safer, lower constant intake temp to lower the possibility of knock/ping which could cause an apex seal failure.