From: Tim Roller <starwolf@bewellnet.com
>Fri.Dec.5,'97-6:40pm
>When you get this new marvel up and running the way you want it to are
you going to take off the V-8 badges and put on a decal that says "POWERED
BY WEED WACKER" ? Actually this idea you're doing is an old mechanics
trick- I knew of people doing this same thing with small blower fans(heater
blowers) from back in the early 70's to get air into those big blocks that
had limited underhood clearances. Have fun,cause the way you described it
was a real hoot.
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> From: Bruce Aaron Hefner <gt9742a@prism.gatech.edu>
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: Re: DML: FIPK, (NOW, "BLOWER POWERED DAK")
> Date: Friday, December 05, 1997 8:22 AM
>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Michael Foster [SMTP:foster.john@mailexcite.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 1997 4:41 PM
> > To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net; Bruce Aaron Hefner
> > Subject: Re: Re: DML: FIPK, (NOW, "BLOWER POWERED DAK")
> >
> > >Don't know about the pressurized air, but do not try to feed pure
oxygen
> > >into the air box, pure oxygen is highly flammable so your liable to
have
> > >an engine fire if try to feed it into the airbox,
> > [Smith L. W. Nash]
> > Just a note. Oxygen is not flammable. It is an oxidizer that will
> > increase the burn rate and temperature but oxygen itself cannot catch
fire.
> > If it did, we wouldn't need petroleum fuels and pollute our existing
> > oxygen supply.
> >
> > Just my two cents worth.
> > Smitty - KF4UQY
> > Raleigh, NC
> > '92 3.9L magnum, Shrtbd.
> >
> Maybe, but the air an engine usually gets is only 30% oxygen, if you feed
> 100% oxygen into that engine your gonna have a problem, because as you
say
> it increases burn rate and temp so either your gonna get to much
> combustion and cause a piston or something to break or it's gonna
> overheat, either way it won't be good for the engine.
>
> Bruce
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