[DeTomaso] cooler air to carb

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Chris,

Why don't you just take an indoor/outdoor thermometer and tape the outdoor sensor to e.g. the air cleaner, hanging next to the filter element. Then see what difference the fans make when turned on.

Tomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Kimball" <chrisvkimball at msn.com>
To: "Dave Londry" <davel at emspace.com>
Cc: "Pantera List Serve" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] cooler air to carb


> Wait; if you take another look you'll see they are extractors!  The are positioned on the engine cover in such a way as to pull air out of the engine compartment.  I believe when the car is moving quickly, the air gets sucked into the engine compartment from under the car and out the top through the engine cover (which stock was a screen of some sort, I think) and then out the glass-less "window."  My ingenious fans simply pull the hot air out of the engine bay (and maybe, consequently pull cold air in from underneath) while sitting at stop lights, etc.  At higher speeds my assumption is my little fan blades are probably whizzing around faster than they ordinarily would, since at that point the airflow would be shooting through the fan openings in the same direction as the fans would want to pull anyway.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Chris
> #3846
> 
> 
> 
>> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:47:52 -0700
>> From: davel at emspace.com
>> To: chrisvkimball at msn.com
>> CC: detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] cooler air to carb
>> 
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   
>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Quoting Christopher Kimball <chrisvkimball at msn.com>:
>> >>
>> >>     
>> >>> 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
>> >>>
>> >>>       
>> >>>> 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!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ;-)
>> >>>>         
>> 
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