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RE: Cooling ideas.

To: "Rick Byrnes" <rick@rbmotorsports.com>,
Subject: RE: Cooling ideas.
From: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:30:29 -0500
i would think it depends on the number of cars that use it and the amount
they use. I am afraid to say your arguement for it being ok is the same one
used 100 years ago for putting sewage in a river.. It is only a little bit..
if 50 cars use it and all use 3 to 7 gallons thats an average of 5 per car
every 4 or 5 minutes.. or 60 gallons an hour.. on a cool day with damp salt
i think i differ in your opinion as to what is a little water. it's a
traction game and anyone doing this will not make my traction better..
A solution i would personally go for is if you piped any and all water that
did not evaporate into the header to be turned to steam there.
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Byrnes [mailto:rick@rbmotorsports.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:03 AM
> To: Dave Dahlgren; John Beckett; Bryan Savage
> Cc: john@theromeros.org; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Cooling ideas.
>
>
> On my coupe, I used spray bars on the primary charge air cooler and didn't
> find a problem with excess water.  The engine bay was dry and the
> only water
> dropped was at starting line as I would turn it on early to help create a
> good thermal mass.  A nine gallon tank behind the driver used only about 3
> gallons per pass.  No complaints.
> For where we race it works very well.
>
> Rick Byrnes






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