[Tigers] Reduced diameter water pump pulley

Owain Lloyd owain.lloyd at gmail.com
Mon Oct 7 17:35:00 MDT 2013


Seems like a poor fix given the compromise.  A shroud and a sealed cross
member gap should be sufficient.

On Tuesday, October 8, 2013, michael king wrote:

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> On 8 October 2013 08:44, Owain Lloyd <owain.lloyd at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'owain.lloyd at gmail.com');>
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>> Hi Gene,
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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> Michael King


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