I was in the hobbyshop the other day and seen a guy with an old school mustang. He had all kinds of stuff on it to much to remember or name but he had this one mod that caught my attention. It was a Mr. Gasket Cool Can. When I asked him more about it he said he runs dry ice in it and it cools his fuel down dramtically giving him a colder charge of fuel and making hp. I thought for such an inexpensive bolt-on mod it was worth a shot. Does anyone have any experience with this mod or has used it before? Currently I have a standard vortech s/c kit, aquamist kit, long tube headers, and electric cut-outs. The ECU im going with is UTEC just havent installed it yet using the splitsecond box.

 

On a Z its called NITROUS

 

nitrous or meth

 

cooling your fuel temps is a good tool. a cool can isn't terribly useful on a daily driver, but can be very effective on race car.

they also make these type of fuel coolers:

 

I have that on my return line on my RX7..I have a magnafuel external pump on it and the gas gets hot....that cooler helps prevent vapor lock in the tank while "daily" driving the car around...esp with less than half a tank.

 

I have a aquamist kit. So what I am assuming is that a cool can is just extra and unneeded? It just seemed like an interesting mod epically if you are using dry ice. I'm trying to figure out how can i lower the temp of my car since the supercharger now generates a great amount of heat. I'm looking into oil coolers, the meth kit i'm installing this weekend, a NO2/C02 NX intercooler kit I have lying around the house, and potentailly the cool can. I think the colder and dense the air is into the motor the better off it is all around. I think my war now is against heat. I have a direct port nitrous kit sitting around at home to, but I can't use it if I am using the meth, plus I would rather use the meth than nitrous anyways just seems a bit safer.

 

your biggest bang for cooling your engine is a oil cooler kit. Get two if you have too also upgrading your radiator. the ice box and intercooler spray are temporary and mostly for track use.

 

^^^ Very good idea.

I heat shielded my fuel lines & rails with header wrap, from the firewall foreward in an effort to help reduce heaksoak. I wonder how much more effective a fuel cooler would be than simply heat shielding the lines? I might need to look into this...

 

much. worth every penny imho.

 

This looks like it would make the fuel cooler, but the cool can is aluminum with the same type of coiling as the fuel is passing through dry ice. I don't think it would get much better than that.

Gothchick- thanks for the write up it was invaluable in changing out my headers.

 

Back in the day we used cool can's on carburated street rods, it really was only of benefit if we were getting vaporlock, we ran 4 to 6 psi fuel pressure and in Vegas in the summer that could be a problem.

 

ehh thats true..however you have to keep refilling it..with the other cooler..you put it in and forget about it.

 

the fuel lines run so tight on a z,i don't know where any of the old style coolers would fit.maybe with firewall mods

 

Always glad to help~ :-)

I was thinking maybe placing a fuel cooler just before the lines go up the side of the firewall. Like maybe tucked behind the frame rail on bank 1 or something. Remember, passive (as opposed to active) heat exhangers can work both ways. If you put a passive fuel cooler (in the engine bay) it will actually transfer heat to the fuel...

 

i like the idea of a fuel cooler,but space constraints force you to place it in a less than optimal place.anything on the floorboard is kinda scary unless you cut into the floor to minimize it's profile,there is one pocket about 3/4 back but would require radical re-routing.

 

^^^ Good point. Hmmm, I wonder how much more PSI drop it would put on the fuel system if the fuel cooler was placed in front of the radiator, down by the power steering cooler? It would only require about 4 or 5 extra feet of fuel line to reach that location... Then it'd have direct airflow and be out of the way.

 

ahead of the motor is smart.....g's become you're friend with that type of set-up.

 

I would run the cooler up front and have it cooled by incoming air around the bumper.

 

If you dont have the stock exhaust you can always mount a unit in that area with a fan on it.

 

as long as you are running in-tank pumps your really only picking up heat in the fuel lines within the engine bay. Which there is no way to stop that. Don't think the cooler would help much unless you were on a road course tuned to the ragged edge, I mean ragged.