Reason or just for looks #2

34fordy

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Copper lines can work harden from vibration. The coils act like a shock absorber. The coiling in the picture is a bit excessive, but that is one of the reasons its done.
 
Actually, probably all of the above, but I still say "cooling" because you don't need that many coils to dampen vibration. A lot of applications (including some very early automobiles) use "cooling coils" instead of radiators.
 
tubman said:
Actually, probably all of the above, but I still say "cooling" because you don't need that many coils to dampen vibration. A lot of applications (including some very early automobiles) use "cooling coils" instead of radiators.
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I must be missing something. Every car I have had has a higher temperature in the engine compartment than in the back where the tank is located. If anything it would be heating.

Charlie Stephens
 
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It is an accident waiting to happen. The mass of the coils combined with vibration from the engine will result in the copper tubes cracking and spilling gas all over the engine.

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Charlie, I respectfully disagree. Coils, although overkill in this case, tend to dampen vibrations as opposed to straight connections point to point without coils.
 
I agree - once the engine get up to temp it will heat all those coils.


Charlie Stephens said:
I must be missing something. Every car I have had has a higher temperature in the engine compartment than in the back where the tank is located. If anything it would be heating.

Charlie Stephens
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The fan should keep a steady flow of air over the coils. Did you ever think about why automatic transmission coolers are in a lower radiator tank in a car with 195° thermostats? Cool is relative.

Plus, I never said it would work (but it probably does), just what I thought it was for.
 
It's gotta work better then the clothes pins I've seen so often on the fuel lines to the carbi I did the coils like that out of new brake line once for my oil lines to and from the filtor for cooling . I never new if it worked or helped. Tim
 
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