junkyard 396ss coolant advice

[Shirley, Mark R]

You need a restriction in the system so that the coolant will not cycle
through so 
fast.  The engine will not operate efficiently at lower temps. Cylinder bore
wear 
increases as an inverse square of the engine temp.  If you run your engine
without
a thermostat, you run cooler true, but your cylinder wear will be very high.
The racer
types used to put a little disc with a hole in it in place of the thermostat
back
in the old days for this function.  Up until about 2-3 years ago, I was
still 
seeing this disc in the Summit catalogs.  Maybe they use thermostats now.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hunt [mailto:bamainc at home.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:01 PM
> To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
> Subject: Re: junkyard 396ss coolant advice
> 
> 
> Would you explain this further? Please.
> 
> dh
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shirley, Mark R" <MarkRShirley at eaton.com>
> Do not take the thermostat out!  It keeps the coolant
> > flowing so fast through the engine that engine heat cannot 
> be transferred
> > correctly to the coolant.
> 
> 
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