Your reply is amusing *and* appropriate. But, a puke tank is different than a coolant reservoir. I'm thinking of a reservoir that is an addition to the cooling circuit. By adding the additional coolant (2 qts?), you distribute the same amount of engine heat across a greater amount of coolant. The hopeful result is that the radiator can keep up with the temperature drop necessary to keep the engine coolant at its peak operating water temperature, avoiding over heating.
Brad
Terry McKitrick <tmckit(at)connect.ab.ca> on 07/31/98 09:48:41 AM
To: Brad R. Sahr/MIPP/Imation cc: alpines(at)autox.team.net Subject: Re: Another Alpine radiator improvement
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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