- 1. Cold Fuel (score: 1)
- Author: David Boreham <uunet!inmos.com!davidb@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 90 14:20:12 GMT
- Thanks for the responses about cooling fuel. I hadn't heard about it being used in drag racing. My original thinking came about as follows: Everyone knows that dense air gives more power (superchargi
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- 2. RE: Cold Fuel (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!decwrl.dec.com!"dsm::holbrook"%dsm.enet@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Wed, 16 May 90 06:25:05 PDT
- I remember seeing plans in one of my MGA books describing a "cold air pack" it was nothing more than a sheet aluminum box that replaced the air filters. Cool air was piped in from in front of the rad
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- 3. Re: Cold Fuel (score: 1)
- Author: cs.utexas.edu!pwcs.StPaul.GOV!phile (Philip J Ethier)
- Date: Wed, 16 May 90 8:57:18 CDT
- I have always thought that the point in cooling the fuel on dragsters was to be able to get more fuel through the pumps and injectors (or carb jets) to be able to keep up with the massive amounts of
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- 4. Re: Cold Fuel (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!abersoch.sw.stratus.com!caloccia@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Thu, 17 May 90 11:19:54 EDT
- However, normally the 'ambient' temperature of the air is higher than the outside air when it reached your cylinders, due to the heating of the intake manifold and carburation/etc. air intake system
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- 5. RE: Cold Fuel (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!groucho.cs.psu.edu!leeh@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Lee Henderson)
- Date: Sat, 19 May 90 21:52:55 -0400
- The twincam may have been the only *factory* experiment with cross flow heads on the type B engine, I don't know, but at least one other manufacturer produced one -- HRG Derrington, Ltd. I have one o
- /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00430.html (7,377 bytes)
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