Re: Cooling and waterpumps

[Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@earthlink.net>]

An old Hot Rodder told me the way he warmed up alcohol motors was to stick
a propane mixer on the carb and fire it up. Starts instantly and there's nothing
to wash off the cylinder walls. Ak loved propane and turbochargers.

I used to use propane for extra fuel when the motor was cold. Safer than
squirting gas around.


The Weldons wrote:
> Jon-- This was a response to Keith Turk's comment about putting heat into
> his Rodeck race engine to get ready for a run.  You try to warm up these big
> aluminum engines on straight methanol especially on a cold autumn morning -- 
> it's almost impossible because the combustion temperature is so low without
> any appreciable load on the engine and the cooling effect of the vaporizing
> alcohol.