[Land-speed] Radiator Catch Cans...

[Rich Fox]

> Looks like to me that as the water heats it expands and pushes out teh 
> excess into a sealed container. As it cools it contracts and the pressure 
> now higher in the container pushes the water back. Venting would seem to 
> defeat the principal  RF
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: drmayf [mailto:drmayf at mayfco.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:40 PM
> To: James Tone
> Cc: Rich Fox; neil at dbelltech.com; 'LSR'
> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Radiator Catch Cans...
>
> Hmmmm, quite frankly I hadn't even thought about a coolant recovery
> system. I like that even better than a throw away system. I'll go look
> at some tomorrow at autozone or carquest or checkers or whatever it is
> way uptown in Pahrump. Just for drill though, doesn't a coolant recovery
> system need a pressure cap on the radiator that  can let the expelled
> coolant back into the system? I run a pretty good pressure cap as I
> recall. My coolant system is a scirroco radiator buried in a water tank.
> The water tank is vented overboard but the engine coolant was going to a
> big holding tank when it over flowed.
>
> mayf