[Healeys] Texas cooler

[Alan Seigrist]

Actually it does help move heat... It reduces surface boiling on the
head allowing more heat transfer - car runs hotter but your head temp
may actually be cooler.

This is most important for high performance aluminum motors.....


On 2/19/09, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8