Ouch!!!!! Yeah, I have been through the manual control thing with a road racer.
More than once I "forgot" to timely turn on the fan, but I always caught it
before anything disastrous happened (at least it had airflow through the
radiator
when moving). He must have had a pretty long wait on the line to burn
down........Personally, I don't like to put a lot of heat in the motor before a
run.
Ed
Jim Dincau wrote:
> Ed,
> I have an anecdote that argues against the driver control option. The
> first year we ran the modified we had an electric pump and a 25 gallon tank.
> The driver said not to turn it on at the line as he would do it as soon as
> he saw the temp start to rise. That turned out to be a little too late.
> Burned it down twice, backsided the pistons just like a top fueler. The
> comment was heard "you cant do that on alcohol" but we did. He only drove
> for us that once.
> Jim in Palmdale,
>
> Ed Van Scoy wrote:
>
> big snip
>
> Otherwise I will just wire a switch into the fan and use it manually. But
> hey, that is just one more thing to forget in the heat of battle
> Ed
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