[Mgs] Flushing the cooling system?

[Matt Trebelhorn]

No offense intended -- and your car certainly looks to be in good shape.

I would put it down to the first half of my comment -- I suggested  
that it might be incredibly hard to do, but you work you car, well,  
incredibly hard!  And more power to you.

Between the two of us, we have a couple of data points that start to  
answer the original question.

I get no boil-over when lapping at 95F, with a redline of ~6400; or  
cruising at 110F.
Eric gets boil-over when racing at 110F+, with a redline of 7000.

So somewhere in there is a threshold -- where we might agree that a  
good car, used hard enough, will boil over.

Matt
enough bench racing -- hoping to shake off the long winter next week  
and go for a drive!

On 10 Mar, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Eric Erickson wrote:
> Matt Trebelhorn wrote:
>> I think it would be incredibly difficult to get an MGB in good  
>> condition to boil over.
>>
> But of course that statement then suggests, plainly,  that if your  
> car boils then it is not in good condition and answers any argument  
> against it.
> I think my car is generally in pretty "good condition" (well, not  
> right now because I have a split in the top tank of the radiator)  
> but I can assure you that driving for six or seven minutes with the  
> foot planted on the floor and significant amounts of times at 6500  
> to 7000 in 110F+ temperatures WILL get you dumping fluid.