I have occasionally read about fuel cooling. First of all how does one go about cooling their fuel down? Without resorting to me moving to the Arctic. Also, what are the pros and cons of cooling it; power gains, economy etc.

Thanks.

 

I have also thought about this, back in the day on my '70 Camaro I used a "cool can". Basically fuel line coiled inside a can which you would pack with ice/dry ice.
The same basic principle can be applied to the MINI as long as the setup will withstand the fuel pressure. The "can" will obviously have to be custom made to fit.

I suppose you could also use a small tube and fin type cooler. Placement will be tricky as you want it in the front for max airflow, but you also want to protect it in the event of a frontal impact.

Cooling the fuel in warm climates such as yours can only help how your car runs/performs.

BTW, I have some very good friends in North Haven, SA

 

See http://www.designengineering.com/pro...asp?m=sp&pid=3

CO2 as a liquid is passed thru the block to chill fuel.

 

I don't think any kind of ambient-air heat exchanger is going to be effective, because I don't think the fuel spends very much time in the engine compartment before actually going into the engine. As as result, I don't think the fuel is significantly hotter than the outside air when it enters the engine.

To be effective, you're probably going to have to go with some kind of expanding-gas heat exchanger, like the CO2 setup gnatster mentioned.

 

Contact Der Abt. There was a company who did this to their Cooper and they used a kit that was made by another company. I'll look for it so I actually make sense.

 

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It's funny that this topic came up. Years ago, more than I'm willing to admit, I worked on designing a cool can for a 74 Firebird that I had at the time. A lot of people at the track had cool cans but they were basically a tin can with a bunch of coiled copper tubing that was filled with ice as Partsman mentioned.

My idea never came to fruition but the gist of it was to use two cans that fit inside each other with an inch or so of air space between. I was going to plumb the tubing into the inner can and coil as much as I could around the outside edges and then do another coil around the center before it passed back out of the can. I was going to insulate it by shooting expanding foam into the space between the two cans. My theory was that the insulation would make the ice last longer and would also cool the fuel more efficiently. *shrug*

 

But, no matter what happens, it's gonna ignite! Seems kinda silly to me, but I'll read up on it.