that's easy to answer - nothing he's doing is a "fix" for anything

Peter's reality television engineering "fixes" are analogous to thinking that a television dating show's happenings can yield advice on your troubled marriage.

I did get a chuckle at the end - "who knew that running compressors outside of their effective range and overboosting just makes hot air and robs power!".

Um...anyone that's ever run a turbo setup of any form, many of whom have been telling him that for months if not years.

Some Audi engine engineer recommended removing one of the turbos which would increase power output and reduce temps. PM said that it wasn't a quick fix.

But he spends hours installing two additional coolant tanks and then spends who known how many hours looking at engine graphs.

And he dumps some boost out of one of the turbos and lo and behold power is the same or maybe a little higher and temps go down, both he thinks due to his cooling mod.

Recursive post!

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But that would ....

Remove weight.

Can’t do that.

The funny thing is when he’s showing all his little graphs and it shows 460 hp and he states that’s not correct, he “thinks” it’s around 330 hp.

I chuckled about painting the tanks black for the radiative cooling effect — into his enclosed nose compartment. A BTU here, a BTU there, pretty soon it‘ll add up!

Hmmm, someone should tell him he could fill those tanks with ice for a big win.

I'm surprised he hasn't tried feeding the A/C cooled air into the engine somehow.

For grins I looked back 4.5 years to the beginning of this thread. In the third post on the first page, Mike C pretty much called it:

That was funny, I was thinking you better plumb some air to those tanks. It amazes me that taking off a turbo as some Audi engineer suggested is just too much work. But, he is going to put so much time and energy into something that is going to give him minutes more time in the air. So, instead of having just enough time to turn back into the adjacent runway. He may possibly do the pattern to get back on his runway.

Also, he has finally admitted that his radiator and intercooler setup up is wrong. I don't know how long people have been trying to tell him that. I really don't understand his end game here. He knows it's only going to give him a few more minutes before it overheats. Until you pull all that crap apart and fix the airflow issue, it's just going to overheat every time.

Haha, I thought precisely the same thing. It’s sad because I actually think it’s cool he’s thinking of these details, but that’s all he’s thinking of. You have to be able to build an airplane first.

It’s like taping bubble wrap to the side of the titanic.

Someone mentioned this is like a reality TV show. Given how many people are interested in what he’s doing, and the ratio of time he must spend making videos vs making an airplane, maybe this is a plausible pivot for him. He just needs to get an aeronautical engineer involved so we can hear him argue his unique take on physics. Ron Howard could narrate.

Better yet: The Peter and Jerry Show!