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freebeard · 11-11-2020, 05:27 PM

Search fails, but I saw an old black-and-white picture of a Porsche race car that had the engine cooling driven by the exhaust through a plenum behind each rear wheel. Would that be Venturi effect?

OTOH I did find this picture of the Emory's Darth Vader Porsche:

I wish they were still in Eola Village at Amity, OR. Good times.

https://www.pca.org/sites/default/fi...Sweetman-5.jpg

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freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 29,042 Thanks: 8,244 Thanked 9,008 Times in 7,442 Posts	Search fails, but I saw an old black-and-white picture of a Porsche race car that had the engine cooling driven by the exhaust through a plenum behind each rear wheel. Would that be Venturi effect? OTOH I did find this picture of the Emory's Darth Vader Porsche: I wish they were still in Eola Village at Amity, OR. Good times. https://www.pca.org/sites/default/fi...Sweetman-5.jpg __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ____________________ . .What the headline giveth, the last paragraph taketh away. -- Scott Ott