[Steve91T]

Sometimes I like to reinvent the wheel, I don't know why.

So I hate being hot. Worst thing is wearing a helmet where I can't feel air on my face. I can't imagine what it's going to be like with a full racing suit. So my plan is to buy a G Force helmet with an air hose attachment and my wife can make a shirt with fish tank hose running through it.

I then want to mount a removable cooler of some sort in the car with a drain valve. I'm going to use the windshield washer pump as the water pump for the shirt.

So, another idea I have is instead of ducting air hot air from outside, I'm was thing I'd rather have cold air go through my helmet. I'm going to mount a small fan on the side of the cooler, pulling air from inside the car, through the cooler, then suffer through my helmet. I imagine sitting in the car staging, everyone else will be roasting, and i can flip a switch and be comfortable. I'm pretty sure I can make this whole set up for very little. I would image just a few lbs of ice and water would last the length of a race.

What do you guys use and how well do they work? What about weight?

[mesospeedy]

You could just make a shirt with some slots sewn on to it and then just get some of those re freezable cooler pouches or similar to put in before you start the race. They won't melt completely in a short CMC race. Probably wouldn't even have to be completely frozen. If you use it for an endurance race though, they might melt and the water will get hot.....not comfortable! Years ago they gave us some kind of military vest thing to try on the race crew. It had freezer pouches that went in pockets all around it to go under the fire suit. I can't elaborate on the design though, I wasn't working the particular race this happened at, just got a rundown from the other guys. They said it was great for a short time but if you didn't change the pouches when the started warming it would get unbearably hot! Just a thought, I'm sure a redneck version could be fabed up on the cheap.