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Old 11-22-2012, 10:26 PM   #49 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by arcosine
I think the coolant boils in contact with the head before it overheats. I like air cooled engines.
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I think if you have any exhaust leaks they'll find their way through the firewall somehow, mine do !! LOL
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...might be possible now to use a bank of pressurized air to inject onto hollow spaces on the air flow,
Gee, the thing it sounds like you'd want would be a rear-engined, air-cooled car that can dump, oh, say 1000-1200cfm of hot engine air directly into the wake where it will do the most good.

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