[Fot] Sputtering TR question

[Don Elliott]

Ken Gillanders told me a racing story many years ago from the late 1950s. 
Maybe it applies here.

It seems that a racing Mini had two fire extinguisher bottles.  One bottle 
was filled with the approved fire extinguisher inside.  The other was filled 
with pure nitrogen and the driver would flick a switch that released a 
sudden huge mass of nitrogen out through small holes in a copper pipe hidden 
under the rear bumper.  Every corner - just like you Duncan - the cars 
following would seem to suffer fuel starvation problems and by the time the 
cars following got un-spluttered again, the Mini was far gone.

You need oxygen in the air/fuel mixture - not pure nitrogen and fuel.

Leave it up to Ken to tell a great story !
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MadMarx" <tr4racing at googlemail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Sputtering TR question


> It seems to me a classic SU dirt problem.
> Debris is somewhere in float chamber and blocking from time to time the
> needle jet.
>
> Cheers
> Chris
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