From: Patrick Jankowiak (eccm@swbell.net)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 20:54:06 PST
My brother in law does this 'fuel cooling' with his drag racing car, using ice in alcohol. He claims it shaves a few milliseconds off the time by making the fuel denser and thereby getting more of it
into the engine, but I don't know how such a thing would be proven except on a test system.
Everette wrote:
>
> I have been reading with interest the "fuel economizer" thread - my .02
>
> Few years back I acquired a civilian pickup that had a "fuel saver" - "money
> saver" on it. A piece of copper pipe about a foot long and about 2 inches
> in diameter, with water outlet on one end and inlet on the other, water from
> radiator flowed through this, also small fuel line went through center so
> fuel was heated by hot water from radiator - expanded fuel so less actual
> fuel went to carburetor - hence you saved money - The only people who made
> money with this in my opinion were the people who made the gadget -
>
> On the other hand I well remember my drag racing days when I was much
> younger and we had a container with a coil of fuel line in it just before
> carburetor and the container held ice - salted ice at that - so fuel would
> take up less space and you could get more fuel in same space in carbonator.
> Time trial proved this did work. But we also thought that the extra weight
> of this gadget - ice an all maybe 10 pounds could have offset the fuel
> advantage.
>
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