[Tigers] Reduced diameter water pump pulley

michael king michael.s.king at gmail.com
Mon Oct 7 16:11:34 MDT 2013


On 8 October 2013 08:44, Owain Lloyd <owain.lloyd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Gene,
>
> What's the motivation?  I could understand _increased_ diameter for high
> revving engines, but why smaller?   More water flow is unlikely to aid
> cooling and could make it worse.
>
> The reduced pulley increases the fan speed at idle (well across all.. but
idle is the focus) which increases the amount of air moved through the
radiator at that problem point when the car is stationary.



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Regards

Michael King


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