If you mean the Atomic 4, then you are about right. Those engines were not
much that a good healthy rubber band couldn't duplicate.
Never Be beaten by Equipment
Kas Kastner
----- Original Message -----
From: Craig Wensley
To: Kas Kastner
Cc: Gary Schneider ; fot@autox.team.net
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [FOT] winter storage
Kas
it sounds like your working atom 4
Craig
Kastner wrote:
>Drain everything, pat in on the hood and wish it well. In the Spring, on
first
>fire up, run for ten or fifteen minutes, get it good and warm, then drain,
>refill, and it's over with.
>
>Never Be beaten by Equipment
>Kas Kastner
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gary Schneider
> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [FOT] winter storage
>
>
> I just drain the system and try to blow it dry reasonably well. Most
race
>organizations require water only and you can't just get rid of the
anti-freeze
>smell in the spring. If you travel to races where you are not known, tech
>inspectors like to hassle you over it. I used to use anti-freeze but just
got
>tired of the endless flushing.
>
> With so little humidity in winter I would think the corrosion issue in a
dry
>block and rad must be small.
>
> Gary Schneider
> '62 wh EP TR4
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jack W. Drews <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:19:16 AM
> Subject: [FOT] winter storage
>
>
> I have an aluminum radiator and a cast iron block, of course. Looking
> at all the stuff that happens inside there over the winter, I suspect
> that galvanic action is alive and well through the winter. In the
> past few years, I've put antifreeze in it for freeze protection and
> to prevent corrosion.
>
> What's the collective wisdom -- is it better to fill it with anti
> freeze or just drain it all?
>
> uncle jack
>
>
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