I run an Eddy Air Gap, so, no heat crossover at all and the carb stays colder than on standard intake designs.
Right, so if it works on your car everyone should make their car exactly like yours, but if it works on my car that's its a one off and no one should listen. Uh-huh, sure.
I run an Eddy Air Gap with a Holley 750 double pumper. Funny you think that matters now, but are happy to give blanket advice without knowing stuff like that. Application and components matter, which is why your "my way or the highway" take on this can be nothing but wrong. In certain applications you are right, but to lump the entire hobby into that way of tuning is just silly.
No sir, it's not that simple. Colder intake air temperatures make horsepower. Making horsepower has very little to do with engine coolant temperatures, except that intake manifolds gets hotter with the engine and that raises the intake air temperature. Which is why people run cold air boxes, air gap intakes, etc., and why those things work.
I'm plenty willing to learn new things, but your take on this isn't "new" and your oversimplification of engine coolant temperature and performance is limiting your understanding. You've lumped engine coolant and air intake temperatures inseparably together, which is a mistake. Yes, you want your air charge to be as cold as possible. And yes, keeping your intake manifold colder helps with that. But air charge temperature depends on more than the intake manifold temperature, and even the intake manifold temperature isn't set solely by the coolant temperature. I'm sure you know that all the different components of the engine aren't always the same temperature. And yeah, if you get off the track and onto the street, extended operation means the intake manifold temperature is driven by a lot of different component temperatures. Your whole engine isn't operating at 160°, I'm sure you understand that. Your combustion temp is in the thousands, colder coolant isn't going to change that much at all. Your under hood engine temperature sure as hell isn't 160°, and changing your coolant temperature from 160° to 190° isn't going to change your under hood temperatures one single bit on a street car out on the road.
You don't need to do a video. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of books on thermodynamics in general and even just on the thermodynamics of internal combustions engines already, that were written by more intelligent people than both of us, that already explain all of this very clearly. Engine coolant temperature is just a single variable in making more power, and it's no where near the most important one.
If you legitimately think you can improve the tune on my engine to make more power AND maintain drivability, you can PM me and I'll be happy to give you all the details of my build and tuning. But since I've suggested that to you before and heard crickets in response, I won't be holding my breath.
