Eric the Knuckledragger asked about coolant, and a bunch of people Here's a response from someone who designs vehicle cooling systems for a living (that would be me): Strictly looking at the heat tra
<snip lots of good stuff> Here's a question you may be able to aswer: what about VW's G10 and G11 antifreeze? It's blue in color, contains no phosphates (which degrade the anticorrosion protection ov
On a related topic -- those of us towing with cars, not trucks, often find that the limiting factor isn't power or brakes, but cooling. Is there something we can do to modern street cars to increase
Water can transfer much more heat than coolant. More water and less coolant. You obviously loose some of the safety margin if you start to overheat since the boiling point will be lower. You loose s
At one time we clipped off every other blade on the water pump impeller. Got rid of cavitation, which comes about from a small engine revving high. --Pat Kelly
Mark Sirota asked: Back in the days when US car = Big RWD thing with a V8 and body-on-frame construction, trailer tow packages were factory-available. Today, there's only one car family in the US wit