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Fuel Cool Can [message #140904] Thu, 25 August 2011 10:55 Go to next message
Steve Stolley is currently offline  Steve Stolley   United States
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I added this to a prior topic and it got buried. Has anyone tried using an old fashioned cool can added in just before the most proximal fuel pump to the carb/FI to combat vapor lock? It's an old drag racing trick to get every last drop of performance.

Here's a link to one by Moroso.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MOR-65125/

Steve Stolley 76 Glenbrook Ivins, Utah

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Re: Fuel Cool Can [message #140905 is a reply to message #140904] Thu, 25 August 2011 10:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Keith V is currently offline  Keith V   United States
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Steve Stolley wrote on Thu, 25 August 2011 10:55

I added this to a prior topic and it got buried. Has anyone tried using an old fashioned cool can added in just before the most proximal fuel pump to the carb/FI to combat vapor lock? It's an old drag racing trick to get every last drop of performance.

Here's a link to one by Moroso.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MOR-65125/


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Re: Fuel Cool Can [message #140918 is a reply to message #140904] Thu, 25 August 2011 12:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Matt Colie is currently offline  Matt Colie   United States
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Steve Stolley wrote on Thu, 25 August 2011 11:55

I added this to a prior topic and it got buried. Has anyone tried using an old fashioned cool can added in just before the most proximal fuel pump to the carb/FI to combat vapor lock? It's an old drag racing trick to get every last drop of performance.

Here's a link to one by Moroso.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MOR-65125/

Apart from having to buy ice, they really don't do much. I saw them back in my drag race days and was never impressed. The thought that the cold fuel would not pre-ignite as easily or that the you could get more fuel in if it was more dense never is actually borne out by the actual facts and associated mathematics.

Now, if you got that little gizz used on some GM cars in the late 70's that returned part of the fuel delivered to the carburetor back to the fuel tank and put this in that return line, you could melt a whole lot of ice and maybe - just maybe - lower the tank temperature a degree or so.

Matt

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Re: Fuel Cool Can [message #140979 is a reply to message #140918] Thu, 25 August 2011 20:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
midlf is currently offline  midlf   United States
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mcolie wrote on Thu, 25 August 2011 12:09

Now, if you got that little gizz used on some GM cars in the late 70's that returned part of the fuel delivered to the carburetor back to the fuel tank and put this in that return line, you could melt a whole lot of ice and maybe - just maybe - lower the tank temperature a degree or so.

Matt


How about taking some 1/4" steel line, wrap it around the AC return line to the compressor and braze it down and route the return line for the gas through this cooler. Insulate as needed. Would work even better if the return went to a surge tank that supplied the main fuel pump, especially if fuel pump from the tank to the surge tank is an in-tank fuel pump.

Steve Southworth
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Palmyra WI

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Re: Fuel Cool Can [message #140988 is a reply to message #140904] Thu, 25 August 2011 21:00 Go to previous message
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Seems like a good idea using the ac in some way to cool stuff down. If someone trys this let me know Smile.

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Steve & Debbie Monticello, FL 77 Palm Beach :- Aurora EX G4WDT

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