Gotta admit, the Whipple takes an absolute age to shed heat,I'm talking hours if left with the hood down. I'm sure the KB is similar although probably not so bad as it's a smaller unit.
A bag of ice on the top sounds like a good plan at the track.

 

Excellent thread, back in the 5.0 days I went over to the fence at GLD and ran ice cold water over the radiator very carefully so it cooled down fast, this was enough to get me back in the lanes in about 15 minutes. I too have a very long drive, in my case over 2 hours so when I get there I park the car, nose into the wind and open the hood and let her sit about an hour. Most days this is more than enough since I have no interest in hot lapping or setting rounds records.

I care about doing better each run, so if by the third pass I haven't out done my first pass I may try one more and go home happy. Most times I end the day with my last pass being the best.

If my friend goes with his enclosed trailer, I can bring a couple of big fans to help with the cooling job, but this fall I'll hopefully be packing an electric water pump as well.

Putting ice on the top of the engine might make you drag water to the starting line if you don't clear the wateroffwhich could get you bounced from making a pass.

 

I've thought of taking a plastic pan and some dry ice to the track. Dry ice sublimes at -80 F. Let it gradually fog the engine without any worry about leaks or condensation.

 

Some guys take a garden sprayer filledwith water and spray the radiator between rounds. Just have to be careful your not dripping water on the track.

 

Hey Guys, as someone who works at the track let me just say that if you do cool your car with ice, clean off any melted water with a towel before coming up to the line. If your car is dripping water you will probably get sent back to tech or not be allowed to run...

That said, instead of ice, buy a few cans of dust cleaner (c02) turn the can upside down and spray whatever you want cooled down. Just don't spray your turbo/blower housing as mentioned its bad for the metal to go from hot to cold too quickly.

E.

 

Sweet, that's what I recommended! I'm glad people actually do it at the track... it definitely seems like the fastest way to cool something down

 

Oh, just re-read your post, my bad =P. The only thing about Co2 is that you really don't want to be sucking that up in your intake while making a pass, you'll lose serious power. Same thing with Nitrous sprayers, some gets sucked into your intake and your not adding fuel so you go lean.

I'm certain its mostly a mustang issue as our intakes are generally pretty low to the ground in the passenger fenderwell, where sucking up something sprayed on my intercooler would be easy to do.

Then again, since the gas goes in your engine compartment, I suppose it doesn't matter where the intake is. Decent read on this from mod fords
http://modular fords.com/forums/f73/ntercooler-sprayer-my-kb2-2-gt-41321.html

 

Your link is borked

Yeah that makes sense about getting the gasses into your intake. I guess it would be the wisest to turn your car off, open up your hood and do the spraying. The gasses certainly should dissipate by the time you're ready to start your car back up and race.

 

this co2 dust cleaner...it couldn't cause any damage to an intake manifold and cast CAI inlet tube by causing the temp to drop so much so quickly, could it? Is that only a problem for forced induction components? thanks...

 

I wouldn't imaging it to be a problem as injecting nitrous would have a similar cooling effect on those components. That said, the only component this will really do any good on is an intercooler, it might help on your cai tube, but not enough to make a difference.

E.