[dsn_klr650] digest number 267
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2000 12:49 pm
I am not a physics professor by a long shot, but I have studied this. When
fuel vaporize, it suck heat from the surrounding air. This can lower the
temperature to freezing. This is the same reason why water on shirt cools
you. As water evaporate, it sucks heat away from you. Vapor lock is
different. There, the vaporization of fuel is no were near enough to freeze
the carburetor, so it just goes dry.
Ben
________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com> From: "Tom Bowman" > >As counter-intuitive as it may seem, icing is possible under >conditions as high as 60 degrees F - I've seen it first-person >back when cars were carbureted (practically ancient history now). >Maybe that physics professor lurking out there can explain the >dynamics of the Venturi effect?