Re: Another Alpine radiator improvement
Terry McKitrick (tmckit(at)connect.ab.ca)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 09:48:41 -0600
At 12:14 AM 7/31/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I talked with a man today (Erich VanDerhorst of Swede Hollow (Volvo,Saab
>shop in St. Paul, MN)) who has owned a number of Healy's, Triumphs, and of
>course Volvos. He is about seventy and has worked on/with cars his whole
>life. Currently he's working on a Porsche 356C, if I remembered the number
>correctly.
>
>The two options I've seen discussed here for radiator (cooling)
>improvements is to add an electric fan or to modify the radiator from a two
>row to a three row. Erich brought up a third option - adding a coolant
>reservoir in the cooling system. Would this provide as much improvement as
>the other methods?
>
>Brad Sahr
>brsahr(at)imation.com
>'64 Series IV automatic (that's why I talk to the Volvo guys)
>
>I modified my Series I with a coolant reservoir (a.k.a. puke tank), 2 years
ago. No difference in cooling efficiency, but it does keep antifreeze off
the road and my garage floor when the rad is hot enough to burp it out. I
used a 7-11 Big Gulp drink container with lid, and a long bendable soft
drink straw. Some of you may want to use something more in keeping with
British auto maintenance tradition, such as a giant beer can.
Terry McKitrick
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