Reverse Cooling?

[eclark at hoser.com]

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Roger Heflin wrote:

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> 
> On Tue, 4 May 1999, Stephen Cranford wrote:
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> > 
> > Try again...The L98's in the C4's and 3rd gen F-Body's weren't reverse
> > flow at all.  The LT1 is GM's one and only reverse flow V8.  Reverse
> > flow cooling led to cylinder temp problems that GM thought wouldn't be a
> > problem and that's why the LS1 isn't reverse flow.  
> 
> What did the cylinder temp problems cause to happen?
> 

Detonation.  Something about the design of the LS1 allows it to still run
a high compression without the cylinder temps causing detonation.

-Eric