OK, here's another thought; why not cool my intake air then? How you would do that I don't know lol. A bit trickier than cooling a hot bit of metal.
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A very long pipe, connected to some place where the air is very cold would do the trick. Like Antarctica for instance. But , seriously, yes, racers are aware of the power gains to be had from using intake air that is as cool and dense as possible.
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does a dense rider have the same affect
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An intercooler would do it........
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Ba-dum, tsh.
Seriously, though. You're committing Engineering Design Error #1 by falling in love with an intermediate hypothesised solution rather than focusing on your true requirement.
Your true requirement is to make the bike go faster.
Burning more fuel in each engine combustion cycle is an excellent brute-force way of achieving that, but cooling the air intake is not the only way of burning more fuel in each combustion cycle.
For that matter, burning more fuel in each combustion cycle is not the only way of making the bike go faster.
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Wrong! My true requirement is to play around and generally amuse myself by playing with copper tubing, in much the same way I used to play around and amuse myself with Lego when I was a wee lad (not that long ago).
Well, displacement is an easy way of course. Burning more fuel... instead of cramming it in there with squishier air, just make more room to cram it in. So that's why I always get pwned by the Gixxer thou at the lights...
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Wrapping copper pipe between the fins of your air-cooled engine would lessen the air cooling effect of the fins.. unless you plan to run it all the time? Thermostat maybe?
As for cooling the air? Just look at your fridge for clues. A radiator inside your air box flowing with cold coolant would chill the air to some degree... If you need a very small square radiator, a mini uses one in the cab for the heater... hot engine water flows into cab through little radiator and back to engine again - fan behind it blows through, heats up... viola. Go ask skidmark for his heater matrix... heck its not as if he needs it now! hahaha!!
"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary - that's what gets you."
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Build a pipe organ.
No, really.
I was thinking N2O...
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Wow, I'm learning shitloads. Is that how NoS/NOS/Nos/nOS/WTF works... it condenses the air heaps, like a turbo.
Hahah no I'm not building no fricking pipe organ. I did extensively modify my trumpet though, the mouthpiece and lead pipe especially... I had it sounding a lot like a flügelhorn by the end of it heheh.
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I never went to university either, just the exams... no wonder my results last semester weren't quite top percentile haha.
I see this has diverged quite a bit from the original topic, which was never meant to boost performance anyhow. What I was wondering though, is why (reading some bucket threads) do the bucket racers put water jackets on their motors?
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To keep them moist?
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I hate you guys, with your reason and common-sense and knowledge! You never let me play around with anything cool! Like alternator-powered Peltier devices attached to my airbox!!! 
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