[Healeys] Texas cooler

[Bob Spidell]

Doesn't pressurization just raise the boiling point--something like a 
couple degrees F per PSI (i.e., it doesn't help the system run cooler, 
necessarily)?


Bob


Alan Seigrist wrote:
> Nothing will give in the pump per se, it'll just leak water until it fails.
>
> FYI, the radiator in my A90 in Hong Kong is not pressurized at all (open
> system) - it actually keeps very cool even in the hottest weather - radiator
> is clean, block is backflushed annually, 90% water with wetter.
> Pressurizing the rad doesn't really get you there, it should be a last
> resort.
>
> Alan
>
> '52 A90
> '53 BN1
> '64 BJ8
>   
>
>   


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