Well, I had a good look at that page - and none of it answers my questions.
In the winter, I enjoy a good bracing walk in the hills near my home. Around
lunchtime I usually fancy a can of hot soup - cream of chicken being one of
my favourites. If the weather is fine and when I had my Triumph 2000, I used
to strap a can of soup to the top of the inlet manifold and drive around for
a bit to heat up the soup. I discovered - after quite a number of tests runs
on fairly level ground that an 8 minute drive gave me warm soup but a 12
minute one usually exploded the can and I spent the rest of the day removing
bits of chicken from the heat blanket on the bonnet underside.
However, if I found myself in very hilly terrain, climbing one of the
pre-war factory test hills (mostly 1 in 4 for a mile and a half) would give
me piping hot soup in 4 minutes and explode the can in six minutes. The wild
card was getting stuck in a traffic jam where I could go for 15 minutes in
crawling traffic to get warm soup and 25 minutes for an 'exploder.'
What I want to know from all this flow rate and temperature stuff is how
long will it take me to heat a can of steak with onion gravy on the air
cooled manifolds of my injection engine?
Gentlemen, this is a serious question! I don't like vacuum flasks and
heating my soup or Steak and onion gravy on a portable gas cooker has no
appeal at all as I will probably be adding to someone else's carbon
footprint.
Jonmac
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