Operating temps

[David Cooley]

At 12:18 PM 9/24/1999 -0500, you wrote:
> >The thermal expansion "thing" is great in theory--but that's where it ends.
>
>Have you done some serious back to back testing, to show otherwise?.

I had gotten into a conversation on the web with a guy that had done dyno 
testing while playing with coolant temp... He said with optimized A/F 
ratios and timing, his motors (small block chevy) made max power with 
coolant at about 240 degrees F.  The problem he said with the real world, 
is a cooler thermostat means cooler underhood temps and cooler, denser air 
being drawn in to the engine...  He said if the intake could be thermally 
isolated and only have ambient temp air coming in, then the lower temp 
thermostat would actually lose power.
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