When I drove Paul Chism's Twin Turbo'd Jag.... it had a 12 gallon fuel cell
he was using for Iced water... same bag technology Rick's talking about...
only we used more bags.... ( we had around 1400 avalible but I think we were
only using about 1100hp..)
The one thing I didn't like about the senario was the water sloshing around
and ripping the tank out of it's mounts in the event of an accident... So
I might consider baffling an Aluminum water tank rather then using something
that doesn't contain the water in it's place.
Keith ( again just sharing miscilanious ramblings... with a serious lack of
spelling or knowledge )
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Byrnes" <Rick@rbmotorsports.com>
To: <wmtsmith@landracing.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: Intercooler Ice required
> Bill
> In the Merk I used a Coleman ice chest (about 18 X 30 X 24 inches. We
> loaded 4 1/2 bags (5 #) and added water to make a nice thermo mass. While
> in line we added the last half bag. At the power levels I was running
there
> was usually "some" ice left. A few times there was none, but the water
was
> still Very cold. (actual temp not known)
> Consider though that I was compound cooling using air/air with water
spray,
> then air ice water. I cant do that with the lakester, but will try to add
> capacity with a second tank up front. Packaging things in this little
tiny
> car is way harder than I thought it would be. We think Boy there is
sooooo
> much room...yeah right. I'm sure you have the same problem....well, just
> make the car longer :=d
> Another bit of info.
> Banks when he ran the Firebird used ice water. The first year a fairly
> small tank. He had some valve seat issues and the next year came back
with
> a huge water tank, and of course huge success. I'm guessing that he was
> running out of BTU's and experiencing detonation at the high end. Nobody
> knows for sure though.
> I have stayed away from dry ice because of the difficulty with any fluid
at
> that cold a temperature. Most fluids become too viscous and hard to pump.
> Since we all need extra weight, in the right places, water does a nice
job.
>
> Rick Byrnes
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