[DeTomaso] cooler air to carb

Fri Oct 10 20:48:45 EDT 2008

Little known fact:  All McLaren automobiles have two, small fans mounted on their engine covers ventilating the engine compartment.  They purchased the technology and associated patent from a little-known financial planner who lives in Washington State.  

Bruce McLaren was recently quoted as saying that if it weren't for that brilliant design concept, none of his cars would have ever finished a race...

Chris
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> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:00:25 -0400
> From: michael at michaelshortt.com
> To: teampantera at yahoo.com
> CC: RKMosier at aol.com; guson at home.se; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] cooler air to carb
> 
> OK, how about we just agree that McLaren knows a thing or two about this and
> that on the 1996 F1 Street Car which I think was the fastest production car
> on the planet until last year, the fresh air is brought in on the roof like
> the thing that some of you guys use over the roof.
> 
> Just like the air intake on an Formula One car, high over the drivers head
> in the cleanest air they can find.
> 
> Here is a group ( 10 teams ) that spend BILLIONS of dollars on research
> and employ the smartest car engineers in the world, all of them use
> air coolers ( even using portable fans powered by Makita batteries when
> pitted ) and they rarely let them idle at a stand sit except when waiting on
> the sessions to open and if you want to hear David Hobbs whine, let them sit
> there for more than 30 seconds and see what happens.
> 
> I'm sure that if there was a better way, Flux Capacitor Nitrogen dipped,
> streamlined forced air triangulation induced induction with big brown dark
> raisin smuggler nipples - they'd be doing it!
> 
> ;-)
> 
> 
> Michael in Savannah
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>wrote:
> 
> > Ahhhhh but we are talking a well engineered Porsche engine not a Pantera
> > FORD engine
> >
> > *"michael at michaelshortt.com" <michael at michaelshortt.com>* wrote:
> >
> > Same as used on many cars like my 944, a simple ducted route to unheated
> > air
> > that is sucked in by the induction system only.
> > It works or they wouldn't do it at Porsche.
> >
> > Michael in Savannah
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Tomas Gunnarsson wrote:
> >
> > > Richard,
> > >
> > > I took a stock aircleaner in rough shape and modified it. I made a new
> > > snout to match the original aircleaner hole that went from a rectangular
> > > cross section to a round cross section. I then bought flex hose as used
> > for
> > > kitchen fans (i.e. it doesn't burn easily) and routed it towards the
> > ground.
> > > At "ground level" I simply made a short tube to clamp the hose to and
> > bolted
> > > the tube to the chassis. No scoop, no flaring, just a straight cut tube
> > end
> > > that points to the ground. I also filled the vacuum operated port and
> > > duplicated the snout/hose installation on the drivers side of the car. My
> > > air cleaner air temp is marginally above ambient at speed. All this is
> > > barely visible standing behind the car looking into the engine bay and to
> > > the unknowing appears stock.
> > >
> > > Tomas
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
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> > > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 7:32 PM
> > > Subject: [DeTomaso] cooler air to carb
> > >
> > >
> > > > We have talked in the past about the gill area and air flow over them
> > and
> > > > scoops and such. Is the feeling that area is a negative pressure area?
> > > What I
> > > > am wondering is if you drew air through vents there, without scoops
> > > would it
> > > > be drawn into the air filter/carb at speed or would it be a negative
> > > > situation and actually be bad and reduce air to the carb when at spped?
> > > In stop and
> > > > go traffic I assume it would be cooler air than that in the engine
> > > > compartment but could be bad a speed?
> > > >
> > > > I am just wondering if there is a easy (a relative term) to get air
> > > cooler
> > > > that the hot engine bay air into the carb without changing the lines
> > and
> > > design
> > > > of the car like scoops on the roof or gill area.
> > > >
> > > > This would not reduce the circulation in the engine compartment of
> > > course.
> > > > For that you would have to vent like the fans on the grill over the
> > > engine as
> > > > someone showed us pictures months back had done.
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps I am going over old ideas.
> > > >
> > > > Richard
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