<VV> Electric cooling fan results

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Which is where the turbo is located on the Bill Thomas/Doug Roe car; between the firewall and the seat back.
It recently ran 20 minutes at one time, full throttle at Waterford Hills. 15 psi, 3100ccs, 8/1 producing nearly 300 hp at considerably less then 400 deg F.

Warren






Hide it behind the body shrouding, plumb the business end into the engine bay, already got an idea for that sort of thing...?



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From: Tony Underwood <tonyu at roava.net>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:14 pm
Subject: Re: <VV> Electric cooling fan results


At 02:42 PM 8/3/2007, JVHRoberts at aol.com wrote:?
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>WAY better fan.?
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Yep.?
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>Get the turbo out of the engine compartment. The turbine housing and?
>associated pipes throws SERIOUS heat into the wrong side of the shrouding.?
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Hide it behind the body shrouding, plumb the business end into the engine bay, already got an idea for that sort of thing...?
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>WAY better fan.?
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Yep.?
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>Remote oil cooler, a REAL one, like an RX7 cooler.?
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Or one of the 1/2" looptube Harrisons (used on A/SA maxwedge engines) I have in the corner of the basement. They look a little like AC condensers.?
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>WAY better fan.?
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Yep.?
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>Eliminate the cooling air discharge restrictions.?
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BTDT.?
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>WAY better fan.?
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Yep.?
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>See a trend here??
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No... what about the fan? ;)?
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I'd love to find a big old worn out turbocharger I could loot the impeller from... provided I could spin it fast enough. Trouble is, it would likely have to come off something like a "compound" Wright R-3350... my luck, the pitch would be wrong.?
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