Water tank in trunk.

Well I pulled the radiator and all the fan bs i never use, a good 30#s.

Gonna fab a 4 gal alum tank and use my remote pump to circulate the water from the tank to the engine and back.

The fast 10.5 cars mike builds are set up this way, they use ice water and pump through the heads only, I dont have to be that extreme, in fact i'll put a heating pad on my tank lol.

Mike said they can get a lot more aggressive with the tune, that and the 30#s off the nose and in the trunk aint a bad idea.

Anyway I though I would get a thread going about it. .................Nick pay attention.

im all ears sir

that is how the bug is getting set up.

Pretty much the same deal here, gonna go in the Danny Bee and out the intake just like it was.

Hey you BB Ford guys need to remember that you can turn the intake manifold around and mount it backwards, IF you use single pass cooling and drill another hole in the head gasket. I did it that way on Kristina Lawyer's dragster engine, because she had a rear mounted radiator over the tranny/rearend, and it really cleaned up the plumbing and shortened that top radiator hose a bunch!

Because her radiator is mounted at an angle, and the highest tank portion of it was higher than the water outlet neck in the manifold, I added a spring loaded bleeder valve in the highest portion af the radiator, and we just burp it to get out any airlocks.

Hope this helps,
Charlie

I sure fell stupid after reading this post! I thought those guys (fast 10.5's) had all that iced water for the inter-cooler! .... ....

Dave.

They did, then you get guys like Mike who go hmmmm, what if we ran ice water through the heads.................

I built my own cool down chiller pretty cheap compared to what some of the companies sell them for. I could cool the engine down to well below ambient temps in just a matter of minutes.....safely.
Here's a few pictures:

wow ...really neat idea Jeff

That's a slick set up there Jeff.

It even has cup holders for beverages!!!

Bill

Nice idea Jeff! Is that a Chevy engine I see in the Mustang? I thought we were going to convince you to go with a TFS A-460 headed Ford engine? I still honestly believe there is more power there with a Ford

Charlie Evans

c.evans wrote:Nice idea Jeff! Is that a Chevy engine I see in the Mustang? I thought we were going to convince you to go with a TFS A-460 headed Ford engine? I still honestly believe there is more power there with a Ford

Charlie Evans

Charlie you got me Yes sir that was a Chevy in there but there is still hope for me. Don't give up on me yet

Nice to see you over here Jeff. We are gonna have to work on gettin' you a nice BBF in that car. If you need any help with that, let me know. I am just down the road a few miles....

David Willingham
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still toying with the idea of just sticking a 2 qt tank up front just to move water through the block, this way i dont add weight with all the hoses and bs.............................pondering lol.

I'm not going to run anything. I can't say how it's going to work, but as long as I don't run normal brackets, I think I will be ok.

I'd at least run water through the block and heads, the heads will get hot spots in them.

David Willingham wrote:I'm not going to run anything. I can't say how it's going to work, but as long as I don't run normal brackets, I think I will be ok.

interesting David ??? the alky gonna keep it cool enough for you

Promods stay cool enough. I'm not driving mine to the line or back.

It's just sad to see a Chevy in a foxbody. There should be a law...

Jon, I have been thinking about a one or two quart tank in the front. I have tried all kinds of lean outs and the primer plus, but we usually launch the car at just over 140 degrees. Not only would that clean up the front and save weight, but might help get the temp up. Let me know if you find a neat tank. John

local welding shop had some condemed alum cylinders, about 3.5" in diameter. I actually had one I used for a primer plus tank when i was on injection, holds a bout 2 quarts, easy to weld a rad cap bung to.


Guy could wrap a heating pad around it real easy like.............

So you gonna stick with alky from here on out?

Keeping it all up front sounds lighter and less of a hassle.

the way I look at it is if you have to stick it in the trunk, then it is time to either put it on a diet or if you are doing it for weight then put some dang tires under it so you can stick it.....


JMHO
Randy

Here's an older thread on Yellow Bullet talking about this.

http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55551

I havent seen a limit as to what you can do.. I wish I had those kind of fab skills