Could anyone involved in Black Top / Circuit racing please tell me if
Propylene and Ethylene Glycol coolants have been banned from their
tracks.
I would like information about studies conducted that lead to the ban
and URL’s for sanctioning bodies that have these bans in place.
Please Reply to nitro…@hotmail.com
THANK YOU
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 21:49:03 +0800, stuart bond <nitro496 nospam
@hotmail.com> wrote:
so do mean do some race tracks not allow glycol coolants?
The answer is HECK YES.
Get a little wreck, and coolant goes everywhere. Water dries up really
quickly.
Glycol is slippery, and takes forever to evaporate.
NHRA outlawed it years ago for the same reasons. As far as "studies",
go use your own driveway…….
If I missed the point of your question, I apologise……
-Doug Miller
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>Could anyone involved in Black Top / Circuit racing please tell me if
>Propylene and Ethylene Glycol coolants have been banned from their
>tracks.
>I would like information about studies conducted that lead to the ban
>and URL’s for sanctioning bodies that have these bans in place.
>Please Reply to nitro…@hotmail.com
>THANK YOU
I run a 360 Supermodified (www.cam360.com) at a couple of tracks in
CA.-Mesa Marin Speedway and Irwindale Speedway. Both of these tracks
frown VERY heavily on the old (green) glycols, but they are allowing us
to run the new silicon type stuff (orange). It’s a little more costly,
but it actually cools better than the old stuff, and WAY better than
straight water. The primary reasons the tracks do not want the green
coolant is (as was stated before) it is awfully slick and hard to clean
up in the instance of a crash, and the new polymer asphalts that tracks
like Irwindale are using are very incompatible with the old coolant (the
track stays way too slippery). Hope this was of some use.
Lance
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Doug Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 21:49:03 +0800, stuart bond <nitro496 nospam
> @hotmail.com> wrote:
> so do mean do some race tracks not allow glycol coolants?
> The answer is HECK YES.
> Get a little wreck, and coolant goes everywhere. Water dries up really
> quickly.
> Glycol is slippery, and takes forever to evaporate.
> NHRA outlawed it years ago for the same reasons. As far as "studies",
> go use your own driveway…….
> If I missed the point of your question, I apologise……
> -Doug Miller
> >Could anyone involved in Black Top / Circuit racing please tell me if
> >Propylene and Ethylene Glycol coolants have been banned from their
> >tracks.
> >I would like information about studies conducted that lead to the ban
> >and URL’s for sanctioning bodies that have these bans in place.
> >Please Reply to nitro…@hotmail.com
> >THANK YOU
`Doug and Lance, thanks for your help the reason for the inquiry is as
follows.
We had the green Prop and Ethylene Glycols banned for bike racing here
a few years ago and everyone was relieved, but we have not been able
to get it banned from the cars that run on the same tracks the bikes
use.
The glycol dehydrates eventually, but rehydrates in rain, and if the
rain is too light to wash it off, the track gets really slippery.
So I have an ambition to get all the information I can about all the
sanctioning bodies that ban the stuff to present a case to the
Australian CAMS in an attempt to get them to come up to speed with
the rest of the world.
This is why I need URL’s and rules as fact to pressent to them.
The bike groups are really up to speed, but I was hoping for a
responce from peoiple who could direct me to car groups that have
rules in place.
Thank you all for all your help, it is needed and appreciated.
STU BOND
nitro…@hotmail.com
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000 02:25:20 GMT, drmil…@cyberhighway.net.despam
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(Doug Miller) wrote:
>On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 21:49:03 +0800, stuart bond <nitro496 nospam
>@hotmail.com> wrote:
>so do mean do some race tracks not allow glycol coolants?
>The answer is HECK YES.
>Get a little wreck, and coolant goes everywhere. Water dries up really
>quickly.
>Glycol is slippery, and takes forever to evaporate.
>NHRA outlawed it years ago for the same reasons. As far as "studies",
>go use your own driveway…….
>If I missed the point of your question, I apologise……
>-Doug Miller
>>Could anyone involved in Black Top / Circuit racing please tell me if
>>Propylene and Ethylene Glycol coolants have been banned from their
>>tracks.
>>I would like information about studies conducted that lead to the ban
>>and URL’s for sanctioning bodies that have these bans in place.
>>Please Reply to nitro…@hotmail.com
>>THANK YOU