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Water cooled vest

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Anybody has any experience with water cooled shirts?

We are running toward the summer months and it will to start to get pretty hot soon and since my car doesn't have AC anymore I think it will be a good idea to install a driver cooling system.
I can make the coolant tank with the pump myself but my sewing skill are somewhat in-existent so I need a good cooling shirt.

So far I only do HPDE and the club I run with mostly require long sleeve shirt so I'm looking for a long sleeve shirt(so I don't have to wear another piece of fabric) and fire rated.
I don't wear a suit for now but that might change in the future.

So far I got 2 shirt in view

The Traqgear Podium (main preference)
https://traqgear.com/product/podium-lcg/

Or the Cool Shirt 2 Cool
http://coolshirt.com/product/2cool-fr/

Any more suggestion or real life experience?
Thanks
 

ArizonaBOSS

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I see these are both fire-rated nowadays, which is great. Both of the CoolShirts I've owned were just the tubing sewn onto a high-thickness Hanes T-Shirt.

That being said, I switched to the MOMO ADC (formerly 986) shirt and have been even more pleased with the performance compared to the CoolShirt.
The MOMO shirt uses compression fabric so it's tight against your body, and it uses cooling bladders instead of individual tubes.
The only downside is that it's not fire-rated, but I do wear a full fire suit.

https://store.windingroad.com/momo-advanced-driver-cooling-shirt---adc-p365.aspx
 
Thanks guys,

The cool shirt system very popular among racer.

I've read mixed review about the Momo shirts. Seems to work better than the cool shirt but if you have a failure of the pump it will act like an insulant and you would have to pit in to remove it.
 

Fabman

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I have one of these, very light and compact, super simple and effective.
They are on sale right now...

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