[DeTomaso] fuel cell as oil cooler ???

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Could they be fuel lines to and from a remote fuel catch tank?

Tomas

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Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:32 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] fuel cell as oil cooler ???


> In adding another car to the Registry, I (easily) noticed that the stock
> fuel tank had been removed, and a "standard shaped" tank or cell installed
> over the ZF.
> 
> OK so this adds weight in the worst location, but...
> 
> In the photo I also noticed was might be an oil line going into and out of
> the tank.  (In addition to the expected fuel connections.)
> 
> Hmmm.  The cooler fuel might cool the oil in the typical heat transfer like
> oil-to-water coolers.  But...
> 
> Fuel works best when the air/fuel charge is cool (denser air).  
> 
> Long ago in my 510 days, when I experimented with EVERYthing about a car, I
> had a fuel cooler can (filled with frozen blue ice).
> 
> Theoretically this fuel cooler worked, but the benefit was out-weighed by
> the effort.  So I must be missing something.
> 
> I would think there are too many issues with an oil-to-fuel cooler...
> 
> But interesting none-the-less!
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> 
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