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Re: Cold Intake

To: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: Cold Intake
From: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:06:56 -0500
john robinson wrote:

> Howdy, here at the UW  Mech Engr dept, we have a ford Contour engine on a
> dyno that the kids run. As part of the class the kids get to design an
> experiment of their own, and one of them came up with cooling an
> intercooler and feeding the cooled air to the engine. Unfortunately , they
> have been taught to run at a steady state condition, and while the engine
> ran very hard for the first 6 or 7 minutes of the run with the intake air
> at around -30 f*, all of a sudden, the intercooler, complete with the pan
> of ice and alcohol jumped towards the engine as it gulped and died.
> luckily, no fire ensued ...they did learn something from the experiment
> though.....
>
> At 10:52 PM 11/27/01, you wrote:

John,
Sure, but until then did it work?? ;-)
You know we aren't that easily discouraged.
Cheers,
Rick

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