Canadian1968
Well-Known Member
I've got addicted to watching some of the Engine Masters, episodes on MotorTrend. Although most of the episodes leave a lot of "grey area" to their testing, I think they still give some pretty interesting information.
I just watched the episode on how cooler air/ water temp/ fuel effect power ratings. What they noticed was that keeping the FUEL cool actually produced some pretty good results. They recreated the old scenario of guys packing ice around their intakes between runs to help cool things down. What they found was that benifit was not actually from cooling the actual intake but instead cooling the carburetor and fuel inside. The example they did was to leave the ice on the intake and then heated the fuel bowls of the carburetor with heat guns and do another dyno pull . The power they made on the previous pull was immediatley erased when they heated the fuel but still maintained the lower intake temps.
Curious does anyone run a fuel a cooler on their carbureted engine? I have seen a lot of people doing it on EFI/ TBI setups. Just curious .......
I just watched the episode on how cooler air/ water temp/ fuel effect power ratings. What they noticed was that keeping the FUEL cool actually produced some pretty good results. They recreated the old scenario of guys packing ice around their intakes between runs to help cool things down. What they found was that benifit was not actually from cooling the actual intake but instead cooling the carburetor and fuel inside. The example they did was to leave the ice on the intake and then heated the fuel bowls of the carburetor with heat guns and do another dyno pull . The power they made on the previous pull was immediatley erased when they heated the fuel but still maintained the lower intake temps.
Curious does anyone run a fuel a cooler on their carbureted engine? I have seen a lot of people doing it on EFI/ TBI setups. Just curious .......