[DeTomaso] WANTED :Meriah fans and door glass

[GW]

When my father ran the great race, it was common for guys to put bug 
sprayers on the outside floorboards to spray on the radiators. In the 
dry hot climate they would get a huge temperature drop from the 
evaporating air. Going through states at a 110 degrees in cars 75+ years 
old the only way they could keep them from overheating is by spraying 
water on the radiator.

That is like the swamp coolers in Phoenix. They work in phoenix but not 
in humid states because the temp drop is from evaporation. There is not 
much evaporation in Indiana but Phoenix in the summer they are very 
effective.

Having said that, neither is relating to the transfer of heat from a 
radiator (not being sprayed with water) albeit a moist or dry climate.

Gary

MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/6/11 18 37 45, gndplne at yahoo.com writes:
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>> oh, ok.  It sounded like you might have known something about the process 
>> that I missed.  Every property that I know about is different between 
>> moist and dry air (of course as a pilot you know the adiabatic lapse rate is 
>> different) so I thought you could explain this.
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