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I'm not talking about N/A engine... I'm talking about carby engine.
Cooler air is better, period. The external factor that affects the situation in the case of a carby engine is the ideal temperature that fuel vaporises. But you want to keep that air as cool as possible without compromising the fuels ability to do so.
If I had a carby engine, running at a intake temp as cool as possible but allowing fuel to vaporise as effectively as possible, I would get more HP than if I increase the air temp from that ideal point.
Therefore, your statement of "Hot air actually makes more power as fuel vaporizes better & its easier to ignite " is incorrect on principal.
Cool air actually makes more power but has the limiting factor of fuel vaporization.
And warm air isn't a problem problem in a turbo? Really? So people get intercoolers just for laughs? Dyno's and 1/4 results have some bias towards giving F/I cars with intercoolers better results than non-intercooled cars?
You're jumbling topics mate.
This still going? What was this thread about again?
There is no point arguing this anymore because people are not willing to articulate the specific circumstances in which their arguments are a valid.
In a cold environment a warm air intake might work best while in a warm environment a cold air intake will work best.
In both environments the ideal intake air temp is the same assuming that in both cases we say humidity is a constant.
The ideal intake air temp is as cool as you can get it without compromising the fuels vaporising and atomising. Thus the limiting factor for how cool you can go with the air entering the cylinders is the fuels ability to do its thing and assuming humidity is a constant.
That's the last thing I'm going to say on this topic because the arguments is getting pointless and is getting completely irrelevant to the thread topic.
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Sounds very different to that other post you made!