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Re: Am I crazy or just dumb?

To: "Joel Wolcott" <wolcott_jl@yahoo.com>,
Subject: Re: Am I crazy or just dumb?
From: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:14:34 -0500
Looks very intersting. May be the perfect coolant for Bonneville cars with 
small if any radiator openings.

JB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Wolcott" <wolcott_jl@yahoo.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: Am I crazy or just dumb?


>I looked through the article again.  The product is
> non-aquous propylene glycol.  No water is used.  The
> claim is virtually non-toxic.  They do have 2 products
> one that contains some ethylene glycol.  PHR showed an
> increase in horsepower by switching over the coolant -
> Thre main factor was that they had to retard timing
> with standard cooling - with the evans they picked up
> 75HP (twin-turbo V6).  2 items that i noticed - they
> run as a no pressure system.  The other item that
> makes sense is that in a normal coolant system the
> guage may read normal but metal temperatures are
> actually high.  Reasoning being that there is some
> boiling occuring within the system which lowers the
> ability to transfer heat.  Reminds me of my dad's old
> Mopar that would run a bit slower on hot days with no
> increase with the temp guage - Don't know how many
> guages, radiators, pumps he put in.  :)
>
> My question to all is - Does anyone have real world
> experience with Evans?  This stuff is a bit expensive.
>
> BTW - Issue is November 2004 of PHR
> There website is www.evanscooling.com






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