I hate to say it, but why don't you take this discussion to the Camaro
group or respond personally to each other about it. Isn't this the
group that is concerned with Sunbeam Tiger's. YIKES!
Chris in Trinidad
"Ronak, TP (Timothy)" wrote:
>
> Chris,
> I did not respond earlier as I thought that you had this well at hand.
> Apparently not. We raced a factory bodied 1988 IROC for several years and
> discovered lots about cooling those beasts.
> 1: (The Biggest one we discovered) Make darn sure that the ugly 8 inch Black
> plastic scraper under the radiator support is attached and in good
> condition. They tend to get torn off by parking curbs, aggressive cornering
> over burms or the occasional hot rodder who says to himself "boy is that
> ugly!". That little flap is the sole reason that you car cools at all as it
> acts like a scraper and creates a negative pressure behind the rad and
> "SUCKS" air through the rad to cool coolant. If you have A/C you will NOT be
> able to "BLOW" enough air through the rad to cool the car.
> 2: Checklist: I assume that the fans are switching on correctly, that the
> catalytic converter is not plugged, that the correct head gaskets were
> installed for the Vortech heads, that you are running actual coolant to
> lubricate the water pump bearing (or Water Wetter) and a 170 thermostat,
> that the water pump is the correct one for you belt configuration, the
> timing is correctly set by disconnecting the lead by the heater then setting
> timing, the fan relay is working and switching on the fans at 170 degrees or
> when the A/C is switched on, The correct rad cap is used into a puke
> reservoir that it can suck back the coolant as it cools as the contraction
> is normal. It sounds as though your car pukes coolant but for some reason is
> not able to suck it back from the puke reservoir...assuming you have one!
> This would be the rad caps fault. But start at #1 as that is probably it if
> it is missing.
> I hope this helps Chris,
> Regards,
> Tim Ronak
> Canada
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