[Tigers] BMR radiator

[Owain Lloyd]

Fluidyne - right.
indeed.  there is no pressure increase at that temperature with Evans.  you
can literally remove the cap with your bare hand.
the specific heat capacity isn't quite as good (it's hard to beat water
after all), but the advantages in terms of lack of corrosion (and lack of
expansion) are worth that for me.
the point is that i ran Evans before with the Dale rad and it never ran
that hot.  it was running fine at the high temp (I drove it home at that
temp - no problems - fueling perfect) but it reaches a point where you just
don't want the engine too hot.  iron block, aluminium heads and pistons -
the hotter it gets the more the expansion differences will become.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 12:23 PM michael king <michael.s.king at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey Owain,
>
> Not sure about the BMR, but the Dales ones were actually Fluidyne
> radiators.
>
> The Griffin ones were a separate company and IIRC had the glued together
> cores.
>
> I hear different things about evans.. one of the things i have heard is
> that the coolant runs hotter, but that it doesn't boil, so i guess to ask:
> Apart from it registering physically hotter, was it suffering any adverse
> effects?
> Did it start vaporising the fuel?
> Did it start running rough?
> Did it puke the coolant?
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 17:54, Owain Lloyd via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Last year my Dale A (Griffin?) radiator cracked and I replaced it with
>> this one from BMR in the UK:
>>
>>
>> https://www.motorsportradiators.co.uk/store/Sunbeam-Tiger-Aluminium-Radiator-p146886570
>>
>> Not really used the car since except a couple of short trips.
>>
>> This week I was going to take the tiger out for a run over some mountain
>> passes but after about 30 minutes, no traffic, it was running at well over
>> 100C / ~230F.  I returned home and checked everything over.
>>
>> 1. Full of fresh Evans waterless coolant.
>> 2. gauge is mechanical
>> 3. horn holes blocked, along with gap between rad and crossmember.
>> 4. fan shroud in place with 13" flex fan on water pump hub.
>> 5. doesn't overheat at idle even when left running for 30 minutes.
>>
>> I've NEVER had a problem with overheating at speed before.  the only
>> issues I had were at idle or in traffic / slow speed but even those had
>> been solved by all the above.  engine is a 490hp 347, but wasn't a problem
>> before.
>>
>> everything is pointing at the BMR radiator just being a bit crap and not
>> doing as good a job as the Dale rad.  anyone running one of these?
>>
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>
> --
> Regards
>
> Michael King
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