[Healeys] Too hot?

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In a message dated 7/28/10 10:41:06 AM, healeys-request at autox.team.net
writes:


> Water boils at 212F [under normal pressure].  if you are showing 212 it
> is too
> hot and outside the design spec for the motor on a long term  basis.
> Indicative of a cooling system problem.  As you see, most folks run at 190
> in
> hot weather with a healthy cooling system.
>

A second-hand quote from Donald Healey about the question of what
temperature the cars should run at, was that if he had it to do over, he
wouldn't
have put numbers on the gas gauge. He noted that they had run the record cars
at 212-220 for the entire period of the record efforts.

Gary