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Re: Coolant? (long response, contains technical neepery)

To: Rick Brown <free2000@quixnet.net>
Subject: Re: Coolant? (long response, contains technical neepery)
From: Pat Kelly <lollipop@ricochet.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:07:25 -0800
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

Rick Brown wrote:
> 
> Subject: RE: Coolant? (long response, contains technical neepery)
> 
> > > 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
> > > their cooling capacity without spending an arm and a leg and
> > > screwing up everything?  And given that everything is a tradeoff,
> > > what would we be trading off?
> 
> I would think you could add electric fans and an oil cooler.
> 
> Rick Brown
> FP 240Z

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