[DeTomaso] cooler air to carb

[adin at frontier.net]

If you have an indicator light it would glow if the fans were spinning  
(fast enough) without power.


Quoting Christopher Kimball <chrisvkimball at msn.com>:

>
> 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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