[Fot] TR8 Water temperature

[Peter Vucinic]

Chris,

I never had any success with a ‘free flow’ system and moving water through the heat exchanger/radiator faster. I found that it just became uncontrollable and temperature went higher. I played around quite a bit with electric pumps etc. Put them in the bin. Just stuck with the STD water pump and thermostat etc. All good.

 

Be interesting to see what your results yield.

 

Cheers…

 

 

 

From: Fot [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of MadMarx
Sent: Monday, 11 July 2016 7:54 AM
To: 'Mordy Dunst'; tr4racing at googlemail.com; van.mulders.marcel at telenet.be
Cc: fot at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] TR8 Water temperature

 

Hi Mordy,

 

there are two theories about cooling and water flow.

 

1.      Slow speed of the water in the radiator to give the water time to cool. That means slowing down

2.      The other theory sais maximizing the flow, no restriction, high coolant speed.

 

In a way I prefer the 2nd way. And I’ll test this version in the coming weeks. I’ll remove the restrictors and see what happens.

 

Cheers

Chris

 

Von: Mordy Dunst [mailto:gasket.works at gte.net] 
Gesendet: Sonntag, 10. Juli 2016 22:45
An: tr4racing at googlemail.com; van.mulders.marcel at telenet.be
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Betreff: Re: [Fot] TR8 Water temperature

 

Chris your the engineer....

Heat produced vs heat removed.  There will be a steady state at some point.  You would like it lower.   Don"t underestimate the headgasket component of channeling coolant flow.  In the TR4 motor i made the coolant holes different than original to allow the mass flow of water to occur from the rear of the motor forward.   I also put a pressure gauge on my coolant.  If the pressure is too low it will not cool as efficiently either.  I don"t know what the coolant  dwell time with in the head needs to be to in order to adsorb the heat generated.  Nor the dwell time in the radiator.  There certainly calcs for all this stuff.  

 

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To: 'Marcel Van Mulders' < <mailto:van.mulders.marcel at telenet.be> van.mulders.marcel at telenet.be>; 'MadMarx' < <mailto:tr4racing at googlemail.com> tr4racing at googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Fot] TR8 Water temperature

I have a 160F thermostat installed.

Next test will be without any restrictions, maximum flow and see how it goes with that.

 

Chris

 

Von: Marcel Van Mulders [ <mailto:van.mulders.marcel at telenet.be?> mailto:van.mulders.marcel at telenet.be] 
Gesendet: Samstag, 9. Juli 2016 13:01
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Betreff: RE: [Fot] TR8 Water temperature

 

My diesel BMW runs always at 100°C/212°F when hot. What coolant thermostat is in it? If the T° is steady at 212°F, perhaps it  is intentionally done so with a 212° thermostat.

Marcel

 

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Van: Fot [ <mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net> mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] Namens MadMarx
Verzonden: donderdag 7 juli 2016 19:21
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Onderwerp: [Fot] TR8 Water temperature

Hi guys,

 

My TR8 is running way too hot about 212F at full speed and at idle the temps are getting that high also. I have no idea to get them down.
Radiator core is 68x48cm x 5 cm. I suppose that should be enough. I've experiment with different restrictor plates with no change. Changing pump speed didn't help either. The difference between radiator in and outlet is 10°C (50F). Not enough I would say. Maybe making the pump more slower? It was running on a ratio of 0.8 slower than crank, currently 1:1 speed. Any ideas? 10 Liters are circulating.

 

Cheers

Chris

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