[Fot] Sputtering TR question

[Bill Babcock]

Great story, highly unlikely. You'd need a huge volume to do anything in an
unconstrained, turbulent space like that.

On May 31, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Don Elliott wrote:

> 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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>
>> 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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