BBR's 545 83GT..... it is alive

[BBR]

I was shifting with 2 fingers. haha

Tape, padding, tube socks, anything! Either that or I just need to wear some nomex sleeves!

[Beagle]

thinking about electric A/C from a Prius, but for 500.00 I'll put a window unit in the back window and run a generator on the trailer. 106* today... September has me thinking SBF and a/c. Thirty years ago this wouldn't have bothered me!

The new rad holding more fluid sure can't hurt.

Ice water / fan / mister system?

[SuperBuickGuy]

I have, but the opinions of their effectiveness are mixed.

I read somewhere that an oil cooler can reduce engine temps by 30%. In addition to that, a friend of mine had two chevrolet trucks, one the oil cooler was removed, the other it was left it (the 1st had a stick through the radiator early in its fleet life and they replaced it with a standard radiator). The truck with the oil cooler, lasted 250k miles, the one without 110k. I saw the inside of both motors, the difference really was amazing - bearings and cylinder wall looked new in the oil coolered motor; not so much in the other. Both trucks were in the same fleet, had the same abuse.

[TheSilverBuick]

but for 500.00 I'll put a window unit in the back window and run a generator on the trailer.

No generators going to the car allowed on Drag Week

[Russell]

No generators going to the car allowed on Drag Week

Why is that not allowed? so everyone has an alternator? how many solar panels would it take to keep the battery up?

[TheSilverBuick]

I'd have to look up the exact phrasing of the rule, but the trailer can't aid in charging, cooling, etc. the vehicle when going down the road. With all the electric water pumps, electric fuel pumps, fans etc, the electrical system on some cars is very very taxed, and often the cooling system very marginal.

[Deaf Bob]

Makes me happy as heck that "HOT" here is 80* and " too dang hot" is 90*... I have rode bikes where the air provides no relief...
Stay cool!... I'll try to not moan about my "HOT" 80*...

[Beagle]

I'd have to look up the exact phrasing of the rule, but the trailer can't aid in charging, cooling, etc. the vehicle when going down the road. With all the electric water pumps, electric fuel pumps, fans etc, the electrical system on some cars is very very taxed, and often the cooling system very marginal.

I read that as cooling the vehicle, this is for the vehicle operator!! What about ducting the ac from the trailer to the car? Okay, screw it. I'm gonna get one of those cool hats. If you lose most of your body heat through your head, then cooling just your head should keep you comfortable? The cool hat is more "spirit of drag week" I think. I was kidding but I may give this cool hat idea some more thought. lol.

Medical tape - don't do it. I tried that once. The glue melts and you have an unholy mess to clean up. Same for baseball bat tape. Leather is oddly the best I've found. I'm thinking maybe a squirt bottle of water in a cooler and just spray/wipe everything down with cold water before driving it? I didn't have a/c for the first few years of driving and remember far too well being scalded by black vinyl steering wheels.

Deaf Bob... it's 80* at 6:30a.m. as I type this, with a charming 62% relative humidity! lol. Amarillo and Dallas are both heading to 102 today.

[BBR]

My Durango said 108 yesterday, but it really was not too bad with the very low humidity we have.

[Beagle]

heck ya!!! http://www.ergodyne.com/products/pag...?PCA=15&PRD=39

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