| Re: Vaporlock baseline temperatures [message #211142 is a reply to message #211128] |
Sat, 15 June 2013 08:52   |
rcjordan
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From my post in the other thread:
"I spent some time researching rice boy and/or big block gas-burner forums on this issue yesterday. In short, unless you go with very active systems such as co2 coolers, cold cans, etc. the results were so inconclusive that they were deemed not worth pursuing. Active systems certainly violate KISS and aren't of interest to me, either. Semi-passive systems, such as re-routing the condensate drip to provide evaporative cooling on the fuel tanks while underway might be worthwhile if they are so cheap and easy to do that they fall into the 'why not' category.
The one fix that did seem to have some traction was along the lines of what Emery has said; shield the tanks or, perhaps better, add heat sinks to the tanks.
The one other takeaway was that adding a bypass line to recirculate the fuel can end up raising the temperature in the tanks by several degrees."
JimB and I had a good phone discussion yesterday about addressing vaporlock. I suspect the tank is the culprit, having difficulty believing that the comparatively small surface area of the lines can pick up as much heat. JimB mentioned heat from the mufflers heating the airflow. What are road surface temps when this starts? We decided we needed some baselines.
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