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Cooling system stepped up big time

cmayna

cmayna

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This past Sunday, Johnpro, JeffTepper & I were at a local Nor Cal car show that gave us a wonderful temp of 107 degrees. 3pm, I was getting tired and cranky and decided to head home. With 75% distilled water, 25% coolant, bottle of water wetter, crossflow 4 core desert cooler radiator, 180 stat in Red, the coolant temp averaged 184. Very happy.
 
Nice, although that's kinda too cold:p SBF's like to be 195-210F. It improves combustion and leaves less carbon deposits in the engine.
 
"Starfury" said:
Nice, although that's kinda too cold:p SBF's like to be 195-210F. It improves combustion and leaves less carbon deposits in the engine.
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That's interesting.
 
That's why the stock t-stat is a 192/195 unit. Hell, if you could get it hotter than 230 without damaging anything, it would be even better. Last I heard, some of the Japanese companies were experimenting with ceramic blocks to see if they could heat them up more. More heat = less quench = improved combustion.
 
"cmayna" said:
...With 75% distilled water, 25% coolant, bottle of water wetter, crossflow 4 core desert cooler radiator, 180 stat in Red, the coolant temp averaged 184. Very happy.
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cool, I have switched to 75/25 with water wetter this summer and we have had near 100 degrees for more than 13 days in a row. I've sat for over an hour in the heat (97+) to get into the Hot Rod reunion at Beach Bend and the car never overheated. In the past with 50/50 I couldn't sit still for more than 15 or so minutes in lower temps as it would start spewing and overheat.
 
Craig, why don't you host your pics here?

Webshots blows worse than you do on New Years Eve. OR so I've heard.
 
"70_Fastback" said:
Craig, why don't you host your pics here?

Webshots blows worse than you do on New Years Eve. OR so I've heard.
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Not for me it doesn't. Much easier to add, sort etc with webshots. Now I did notice that while being on Stangfix, webshots is very slow to load. WTF Sluggo? With all the forums I belong or have belong to, this is the first forum that is very non webshots friendly. This sucks.

So it sounds like I need to post pics on my own website or Stangfix. This blows chunks.
 
"cmayna" said:
Not for me it doesn't. Much easier to add, sort etc with webshots. Now I did notice that while being on Stangfix, webshots is very slow to load. WTF Sluggo? With all the forums I belong or have belong to, this is the first forum that is very non webshots friendly. This sucks.

So it sounds like I need to post pics on my own website or Stangfix. This blows chunks.
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Might be cuz webshots blows like one of it's subscribers. I dunno, all the other embedded sheeot seems to run fine.
 
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