Bill,
Ok. Now what do you REALLY think? hehehehe
Walt Goddard
waltcpa@sierra.net
77B - her oil be cool
-----Original Message-----
From: WSpohn4@aol.com <WSpohn4@aol.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 8:12 AM
Subject: Oil Cooling
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>Not to put too fine a point on it, Jim, but when it comes to MGs, you don't
>know what you are talking about.
>When you say that the 4 cylinder MG should not kneed an oil cooler, you are
>flat out wrong. The early 63 Bs were shipped to North America without
coolers
>and were such a warranty nightmare that the factory took the less expensive
>measure of standardising an oil cooler - something that they would never
have
>done had it not been necessary.
>Having raced various MG engines for (Gawd) 26 years, I can tell you first
hand
>exactly what oil temps certain cooling arrangements require, (yes, I do run
a
>temp gauge), and assure you that unless you are using a late model single
carb
>B and not driving hard at that (thought with the late cars it is difficult
to
>know whether someone is driving hard or not), you stand an excellent chance
of
>cooking your oil and bearings without a cooler. I have seen everything from
>290 deg., briefly, before slagging down the engine, while running without a
>cooler (it leaked in practice and we took it out - hey we were young and
>ambitious, if not overly cautious) to 190 deg., which is what I usually run
>with my giant Mazda rotary cooler (remember - they used oil spray on the
>inside of the rotor as a significant cooling element) on the Twinkie.
>
>I'd suggest that if your area of expertise is in the V8 converted cars, you
>might want to stick to giving advice on what you know, and not extrapolate
>into areas where it may not be valid, as was the case here.
>Each engine is a little different. I drive a daily driver with a V6 that
puts
>out half again what your V8 does, and it does not require an oil cooler.
Why
>some run hot and others cool, is an engineering question that I would be
>interested in hearing those with more engineering knowledge than I have,
>comment on. But let's not generalise so that some poor schmuck in Texas in
>summer thinks you know what you are talking about, and goes out with his
new B
>without a cooler and turns it into Southern fried garbage. Sorry just won't
do
>it in those circumstances.
>
>Bill S.
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