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Re: Optimal temperature, radiator cap, etc.

To: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>, bobmgtd@insightbb.com
Subject: Re: Optimal temperature, radiator cap, etc.
From: Barrie Robinson <barrier@bconnex.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 11:27:12 -0400
For Canadian cold winter driving (yes I drove my MGB in the winter!) I 
covered a piece of cardboard with aluminium foil and dropped it in front of 
the radiator - worked a treat!

At 04:20 PM 8/23/02 -0400, Bob Howard wrote:
>Bob,
>   I had a Saab with the window shade at the radiator also.  Volvos at
>that time had them, as did some of the diesel Mercedes. Perhaps it was a
>cold-country thing.
>   It's not just small engines that get cooled by air flowing over them.
>Look at any large diesel truck on the highway in the winter. All have a
>cover over the radiator.
>    My 2.8L Chevy S-10 uses a 195 degree stat.  It comes to normal
>operating temp about the same distance from home during winter and
>summer. In summer the temp goes to the 195 mark and stays there. In
>winter, it goes there, cycles back down as 'stat opens, goes up and down
>for 30 miles or so before it gets steady.  WIth 1/3 of the radiator
>covered by a cardboard, it runs at a steady temperature.
>Bob
>
>
>On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 22:35:35 -0500 "Bob D." <bobmgtd@insightbb.com>
>writes:
> > I owned a '64 Saab that also had a radiator blind. It had a cord
> > instead of a chain. The cord had knots that engaged a slot in the dash
>to make
> > the blind adjustable. Are small engines easily over cooled by the
> > ambient air?
> > Or maybe the heater sucks out heat faster than a small engine makes
> > it? I never heard of a domestic car needing it's radiator covered.
> >
> > Bob Donahue (Still stuck in the '50s)
> > Email - bobmgtd@insightbb.com
> > 52 MGTD - NEMGTR #11470
> > 71 MGB - NAMGBR #7-3336
>

Regards
Barrie

Barrie Robinson - barrier@bconnex.net

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