Running Rich? Re: <VV> Electric cooling fan results

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Les,
    With all that water injection that Tom K. had for  both his gasoline run 
and his propane run, he didn't need to run excessively  rich.  As Ricardo 
proved, it's better to use the water injection to control  the combustion temps 
than to run excessively rich A/F ratios.
    Frank "water good for both car and man"  Burkhard  
 
In a message dated 7/31/2007 5:43:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
corvair at mts.net writes:

I bet  Tom's race car was running rich enough that at those speeds he saw 
significant  cooling through the fuel. In the case of propane, you'd think 
ingesting  ice-cold propane (due to expansion from the pressurized storage tank) 
would  freeze that engine right down.

Les
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Date:  Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:18:08 EDT
From: FrankCB at aol.com
Subject: Re:  <VV> Electric cooling fan results
To: tonyu at roava.net,  virtualvairs at corvair.org
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Gee Tony, maybe we should ask Tom Keosababian  just what sort of FAN he  used 
for cooling during his 157 mph (on  gasoline) and 170 mph (on propane) runs  
at 
Bonneville.   According to Car Life magazine, he also drove the gasoline  
powered  car to work which would imply it stayed cool enough at more "normal" 
  
speeds.  He must have been putting out well over 300 HP for  these  runs.  
I'd say 
he had a LOT more waste heat to get rid of  than the 95 hp  car driven at 40 
to 
60 mph!!
Frank  "rhetorically" Burkhard







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