salt in air-water intercooler?

[Bill L.]

ok well i was watching mythbusters last night and they were trying to get beer cold fast and thye mixed salt in with water and ice and it got the cooler temps down to about 25 degrees and it kept it colder longer and i was thinking wouldnt this be good for water to air intercoolers cause you could get more colder liquild in the intercooler and it would stay colder longer but would the salt harm the inside of the intercooler

 

[crizzut]

I think the salt would clog up the intercooler

 

[TheGord]

alcohol does a better job than salt cooling things down. the enthalpy change for -OH is greater than NaCl

 

[wojowojo16]

salt corrodes too.

 

[ROADWARRIORSVT]

We used to salt down the ice when we made ice cream as kids. As a teen, I salted down a cooler of beer and it froze solid!

 

[white98snake]

Theorecially(sp?) the salt trick would work but i think it would clog ur intercooler and i dnoo about pouring salt in ur 2k$ intercooler lol but hey goodluck

 

[mobius]

salt lowers freeze point, thats all. it is dissolver so wont clog however it will corrode everything, obviously

 

[Jettsaleen281]

lol, i wanna see someone try this and have a corroded exchanger....