If you take your air condition vent and remove it from the dash of your car,?

[jerryb]

Then run that A/C vent into your breather, directing that air straight into your carburetor, would it increase your horse power.

[Shirley]

would run lean

[jimanddottaylor]

Well, it will give you more power than directing it up the exhaust, but not enough to measure. You would gain a better power to weight ratio by removing the a/c altogether.

[TechnoAlien]

no.that wouldnt affect your horse power at all.

[rann_georgia]

I would think, if anything it would decrease your horse power. I would think hot air would, to a small degree give you more horsepower, slightly. Couple the drag on the engine to run the AC and just turning it off would be a much better choice. Plus, not sure any possible moisture that might get in would harm the engine.

[HoleyMufflers]

i can see an engineering degree in your future.

can't develop enough CFM (air flow).

but they do make electric blowers. super chargers. that develop positive induction pressures.

it's ideas like this, way back when that got us where we are today.
ppl have even incased carbs in plexi and charged that!
so keep thinking of ideas. when you're more mechanically savvy, they'll come into play in a more practical way

[Robert]

Yes and no. The cooler denser air may increase hp, but then any increase would be more than off set from the drag of the compressor. Basically the same reason a perpetual motion machine will not work.

[CournelSanders]

Uh. . . .No.

But because you are interested in this type of monkey business go look up "water injection".

[DKNY]

Your kidding me right? Maybe you should try glueing 1000 AA batteries on your hood, that might make more power. No, I think your best bet is to re route the exhaust to the AC vents. Moron!!

[Jay2]

You'll get a bigger hp increase just by turning the AC off.


Over the years there have been all kinds of gizmos: "ram air" funnels, electric fans, ice-cube holder air cleaners, mist injectors etc., etc., etc. that claimed a supercharging or air cooling effect effect. For a street car, you need 5 to at least 10 pounds-per-square inch air pressure into a sealed system to gain significant horsepower - your AC isn't gonna do it.