[Land-speed] Fw: alcohol

[Ed Weldon]

FWD to Land-speed list w/edits
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon at comcast.net>
To: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren at snet.net>; "Tom Bryant"
<saltracer at awwwsome.com>; <land-speed at autox.team.net>; "tom sarda"
<sardatech at yahoo.com>; <ardundoug at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] alcohol


> Data points--
> Some years back when my friend, Doug King, first started running fuel in
his
> somewhat fragile Arduns he started conservatively running straight alcohol
> and a little on the fat side.  We had a heck of a time getting them to
warm
> up in the pits even with the water pump turned off.  But once on the
course
> the heat would come up well before the 2 mile and easily reach 200F at the
> 5.  And that was with plenty of cooling capacity.
> At one point Doug built a normally aspirated (with mechanical FI and
pretty
> good flowing heads) Ardun with a theoretical compression ratio of 17:1 to
> run on straight methanol.  Lots of fussing around with clearances on that
> one. What compression it actually was is another question.  But it sure
did
> run.
> Doug-- If you've got your ears on maybe you can add some firsthand
> historical details from that little black notebook of yours....
> Ed Weldon
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren at snet.net>
> To: "Tom Bryant" <saltracer at awwwsome.com>; <land-speed at autox.team.net>;
"tom
> sarda" <sardatech at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] alcohol
> > Some myths busted.......................