my understanding is that maximum combustion efficiency is at 200.
james
----- Original Message -----
From: Mclean, John R <JohnRMclean@eaton.com>
To: 'Barrie Robinson' <barrier@bconnex.net>; james
<jamesnazarian@netzero.net>; v8 <mgb-v8@autox.team.net>
Sent: 28 June, 2002 2:14 PM
Subject: RE: more progress
> Newer engines run at least 210. My rad guy claims 230 is not a problem and
> you don't have to actually worry till 250 but that would scare me to
death.
> Hot rodders seem to always be trying to run 180-190-200. They usually
start
> to freak at 220.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barrie Robinson [mailto:barrier@bconnex.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 12:01 PM
> To: james; v8
> Subject: Re: more progress
>
>
> James,
>
> Is not 210-ish rather high? Electric fans come on at 170 so one assumes
> that this is getting close to being too hot. What is the "ideal" temp I
> wonder? Anyone want to advise on this?
>
> At 07:55 PM 6/27/02 -0600, james wrote:
> >Yesterday I drove the V8 to work and back (20mi eachway), I overheated
once
> in
> >each direction. On the way down I popped a hose off of one of my hard
> lines.
> >On the way back I just overheated since I welded beads onto the ends of
the
> >hardlines to retain them. After a little roadside diagnosis, I
discovered
> >that I had my fans blowing in the wrong direction. The poor things were
> >blowing out the front of the car fighting the air. After fixing this and
> >driving to work again, I am running at 200-210 on the highway, and
210-220
> in
> >traffic, not bad in my estimation.
> >
> >I still haven't looked into the running probs although with the better
> cooling
> >the car will restart when hot. But I'll save that for a separate
message.
> >
> >james
>
> Regards
> Barrie
>
> Barrie Robinson - barrier@bconnex.net
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