Steven -
Glad you had good results, the improvement primarily has to do with the
fact the radiator is new. Make sure you have a screen on the intake hose
to keep crud out of your ali radiator - ali rads can't be serviced.
Whenever my car starts running hot, I just take the radiator out and have
it rodded / serviced. Usually does the trick. Also jet hot coating the
exhaust manifold helps push the heat out the tail pipe rather than keeping
it under the bonnet - particularly useful on very long drives.
Best,
Alan
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Steven Kingsbury <
airtightproductions@icloud.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 1st I installed an all aluminum radiator in my BN1
> 100.
> On
> Saturday, October 4th I went on a 200 mile plus journey from the valley
> floor
> in
> northern California up to 8500 feet elevation at the summit of Mount
> Lassen and then back into the valley. The temperature in the valley
> was about 95 degrees F and going up in to the mountains, I got stuck
> behind a motor home and on a very twisty, steep, hot and slow road,
> that's where I got my hottest, a little under 200 degrees! The rest of
> the trip I ranged from 150 degrees to 190! I'm not even going to count
> the 120 I got coming down out of the mountains!
> All in all, it's the best thing I've ever done for my car. The
> radiator was made by Wizardo;? out of New York, I got it off of eBay and
> other
> than
> them sending me the wrong radiator to begin with, (which they did
> straighten out), I would highly recommend their work and product. NFI,
> just happy with what it's done to my car. Didn't have to change a
> thing in the car and it bolted right in! Sweet!
> Steven Kingsbury
> BN1 #598
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