Dear Cuzin Lannis (First cuzin on my Maw's side),
With all this tech stuff, I'm glad that somebody put it in lingo that I can
understands. I gots to get me one of them there radiators! But does it work
outside of "Virginny"? We gots alot of them "furrin Centigrade degrees"
rascals, up in these here parts!
See y'all,
Fred (Cuzin Clem) Kuzyk
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-----Original Message-----
From: LSelz@aol.com <LSelz@aol.com>
To: zehrinwa@UMDNJ.EDU <zehrinwa@UMDNJ.EDU>; arthart@bell-labs.com
<arthart@bell-labs.com>
Cc: morgans@autox.team.net <morgans@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: hot/cold
>I'm telling you, guys, you need to quit fooling around with funny
coolants,
>thermostat tricks, and "recoring" radiators and get you of of them there
>Griffiths aluminum radiators. My 4/4 with a vintage-race-spec engine on it
is
>a prime candidate for overheating EXCEPT that it has one of these gems on
it.
>(I took the oil cooler off this summer in the interest of reducing
plumbing;
>left the remote oil filter on). Even in 95 degree weather (we don't have
no
>furrin Centigrade degrees here in Virginny), in town, idling between
traffic
>lights, the 195 degree electric fan will only occasionally come on; most of
>the time there is NO fan blowing through the radiator, and it never comes
>close to boiling or detonating, even with high (how high? not sure but it
sure
>makes a lot of power) compression, big cams, etc. In addition, about 1/3
of
>the radiator is blocked off by a sheet metal shield (which I've never
removed)
>that the previous owner put on so the engine wouldn't run too COOL in the
>spring and summer. In future, the first thing I'll do with ANY car that
acts
>like it wants to run hot is to have one of these radiators made for it.
What
>a difference!!
>
> Lannis
>
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