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Old 02-17-2005, 06:40 PM
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Cool Cans?

Does anyone actully have on of these or tested them out? How do they keep the fuel cool? Where do they mount? Worth it? Why is it rare to see one of these on a car?
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Re: Cool Cans?

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...How do they keep the fuel cool?..
You have to fill them with ice.
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they are mostly used on circle track cars
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Plus as far as I've known (haven't seen one up close), you'd have to get tricky with the fittings to use it on a fuel injected motor.
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the one that i saw just threaded into the fuel line, and was basically a coil of fuel line in a chmpaigne cooler
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I have also seen ones that mount to you frame rail and is rectangular in shape with cooling fins. No ice required
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Originally posted by 85berlinetta2.8
the one that i saw just threaded into the fuel line, and was basically a coil of fuel line in a chmpaigne cooler
Yeah, "just"... I assume the cool can uses AN fittings, and the factory fuel injection uses metric fittings ... did ya see this on a carb'd car or a FI car?
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really doubt your going to see much improvement with them though
might be wrong but I doubt it is goign to make that much difference
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Originally posted by TomP
Yeah, "just"... I assume the cool can uses AN fittings, and the factory fuel injection uses metric fittings ... did ya see this on a carb'd car or a FI car?
it looked home made, i dont know what fittings was on it. it was on ebay.
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Most of the ones I have seen have pipe thred fittings going in them.
But you can stick AN fittings on those pipe theded in and out lets.
By no means a bolt in mod.
Fill it with dry Ice.
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