[DeTomaso] cooler air to carb

[Dave Londry]

Chriiiiiis
If you'd just turn those damn fans over so they were hot air extractors,
all us gearheads would probably go,
"hmm - that 's maybe a good idea for low-speed conditions"
or something equally insightful??.
(wouldn't be us much fun though, would it)

dave londry



Christopher Kimball wrote:
> ...the post about the engine-cover fans was, you know, kind of a joke...(ask Mike Drew about that).
>
> Sometime in the future I might write something such as, "As President Regan would say..." so be prepared!
>
> Chris
> #3846
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>> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:18:54 -0600
>> From: adin at frontier.net
>> To: detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] cooler air to carb
>>
>>
>> Little know fact, Bruce died testing some decades ago.  I doubt he has  
>> been "recently quoted" on anything.
>>
>> Just the fact, ma'am . . . . sorry.
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>> Quoting Christopher Kimball <chrisvkimball at msn.com>:
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>>> 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
>>> #3846
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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!
>>>>
>>>> ;-)
>>>>