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Old Feb 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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Old Feb 17, 2005 | 07:59 PM
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Re: Cool Cans?

Originally posted by V8 Slayer
...How do they keep the fuel cool?..
You have to fill them with ice.
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Old Feb 17, 2005 | 08:26 PM
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they are mostly used on circle track cars
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Old Feb 18, 2005 | 03:48 PM
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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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Old Feb 18, 2005 | 04:19 PM
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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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Old Feb 19, 2005 | 03:03 PM
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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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Old Feb 20, 2005 | 12:18 AM
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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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Old Feb 20, 2005 | 12:29 AM
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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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Old Feb 20, 2005 | 09:12 AM
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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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Old Feb 20, 2005 | 11:11 PM
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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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