<VV> Re: water cooling the airstream

[Mark J. Murphy]

It can help bring temps down fast, but I think it's overkill for full time
use.  I rigged one up for trial on my 140/turbo/PG car as a cooling aid
because I like to push it harder than I probably should.  Mine was simply a
junkyard windshield washer pump-in-tank unit activated by a push button and
piped through an anti-siphon setup (using aquarium fittings) to a small
misting nozzle above the blower.  The plan was to rig it to run
automatically on WOT but I never got that far as it's not always needed.
Couple things to keep in mind though: if you're using the defroster (and
maybe even the heat) it will fog the windshield, and too large of a nozzle
could be a Very Bad Thing (hot engine + cold water = snap, crackle, pop).  I
also never tested mine for evenness of cooling, which I suppose could be an
issue depending on the mister location and airflow pattern, but I haven't
broken anything yet that I could attribute to this.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Verthein" <daretocorvair at yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:57 AM
Subject: <VV> Couple of things...


> would a water cooling system into the fan (injecting
> water into the airstream)  do a great deal for engine
> cooling??