<VV> Air vs Water HP

[Dennis & Debbie Pleau]

John, I find this email and your previous one interesting.  When I lived in 
the Bay area and used to go to races a Sears point, there was a couple of 
Corvairs running GT3 (I think).  One had an Austin America fan like Charlie 
Clark/Dick Berger run and the other had a duct running from the right front 
headlight bucket into the top of the engine (don't remember if he ran a 
fan), both were able to complete races with out any overheating 
problems.   Over the years I've seen a lot of the Austin America fans on 
race cars, I've only seen the duct once.  Seth will know who had the duct, 
he was out of the central valley and a lot of people drove the car at the 
San Jose Convention auto-X.

Dennis

At 06:25 PM 7/8/2005, JVHRoberts at aol.com wrote:
>
>Simple. Nowhere near enough pressure to flow anywhere near enough air
>through a Corvair engine.
>Remember, a Corvair cooling fan makes MANY times more pressure than  a water
>pumper fan.
>
>In a message dated 7/8/2005 5:23:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>BigD at davemorris.com writes:
>
>I admit  I've often wondered why one couldn't use ram air when the car is
>moving,  and just use an electric fan when sitting still idling.
>
>Dave  Morris