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Old 05-17-2010, 03:10 PM   #11 (permalink)
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warm the carb somehow, leave fuel alone til last second before engine..heat riser ideas galore.
Of course, if you warm the carb, then you warm the fuel and lose some to evaporation. I think he means that you should warm the intake air (plenty of other threads on that regarding how-to and how warm to get it.)


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Old 05-17-2010, 03:17 PM   #12 (permalink)
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That's a good point. Fuel and air are mixed at a ratio of 15:1 by MASS, so heating your air charge will be ~15 times as effective as heating your fuel, and far less risky.
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the radiator is in use when thermostat is open. That means engine is full warm on the cold fuel..before warming the fuel. This is silly....I hope you see why.
toyota 22r...the tank is soft mounted. I can see why you would want to make a quest to make it lively (warm)... I am on this gas subject recently with an old subaru welded into crazy strong.. the hard mounted tank needs to be urethan strapped to calm down hard resonance (way to active...proof in the venting) warm the carb somehow, leave fuel alone til last second before engine..heat riser ideas galore.
ALL your gibberish is "silly... i hope YOU see why."
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Old 05-18-2010, 12:24 AM   #14 (permalink)
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WTH??? Hasn't this been discussed/played with/debunked about 1000 times over already?


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