Paul Foster wrote:
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> I dunno. Cooling radiators on grid on Solo race cars that have
> inadequate cooling due to slow speeds, short distances, and long delays,
> and supercooling intercoolers with fairly exotic substances seems to me
> to be two separate issues.
I think that cooling down any part of your car that gets hot between
runs is perfectly legal. So long as you don't take that cooling
device/method past the starting line and onto the course.
> Do we allow liquid nitrogen? How about liquid helium?
Sure, why not? First off, you've got to haul around that big ass dewar.
And secondly, you've got to have a majorly deep bank account to keep
replacing all of those cracked and shattered expensive engine parts that
keep getting thermally shocked and fracturing. On a strictly
thermodynamics basis, on a hot grid, without fairly specialized
equipment, you can't get much better than a decent garden sprayer with
ice water in it. A CO2 extinguisher might work better if you can get it
plumbed into the right locations, but you might suffer the same damage
you'd get from the -really- cold stuff like LN2.
-Josh2
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Joshua Hadler '74 914 2.0 CSP/Bi - Hooligan Racing #29 - CONIVOR
'87 Quantum Syncro - aka stealth quattro
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