Cool Suits...do they work and how do you fish the water lines?, through your fire suit..... |
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Cool Suits...do they work and how do you fish the water lines?, through your fire suit..... |
nine14cats |
Jul 24 2006, 10:23 PM
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Bill Pickering -- 914-6 GT aka....Leeloo Group: Members Posts: 2,618 Joined: 10-February 03 From: Campbell, CA Member No.: 287 Region Association: None |
I'm thinking of ordering a cool suit tomorrow and having it overnighted to me before this weekends time trial at Thunderhill. It's supposed to be somewhere ~100 degrees ambient which means sizzle city in the car. I was at Buttonwillow last month when it was 106 degrees and the track was somewhere around 120 degrees according to the pyro.
Do the cool suit shirts work and how do you run the coolant lines out of your fire suit? Do you need to have a hole stiched into it or do you unzip your from the bottom? Hopefully there is one in stock close if I can get it to me by Thursday. Thanks, Bill P. |
DanT |
Jul 24 2006, 11:06 PM
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Going back to the Dark Side! Group: Members Posts: 4,300 Joined: 4-October 04 From: Auburn, CA Member No.: 2,880 Region Association: None |
I use the cold wet towel on the neck...works pretty well and it is a lot less than $500.
A couple of years ago when I was working with Chet we called a 911 in that was leaking fluid from the front of the car.... After checking we found he had a cool suit with the ice chest/water and pump in the front trunk and every time he cornered the water would slosh out of the cooler into the trunk and out the drain holes in the bottom of the trunk... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Made him seal the lid of the cooler so he wasn't dumping water on the track....maybe that is the "budget setup"? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) Unless you were going to do endurance racing in extreme heat, the outlay of cash seems to would not to be commensurate with the return of function.... Cold "T" shirt seems much more "budget" to me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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