I do think that I am running lean, and that is my current best guess. I
think that my waterpump pulley is close to 1:1 or slightly overdriven; AFIK
they are the stock pulleys. What type of drive ratio do I want?
james
----- Original Message -----
From: Mclean, John R <JohnRMclean@eaton.com>
To: 'james' <jamesnazarian@netzero.net>; v8 <mgb-v8@autox.team.net>
Sent: 28 June, 2002 6:46 AM
Subject: RE: more progress
> James
>
> One thing to check when overheating that most people miss. I am having an
> overheating problem on my B, a 350 Chevy and had tried everything and
> couldn't figure it out. Turns out a lot of my problems are because the
fuel
> mixture is too lean, not a malfunction of the cooling system at all. Also
> check the size of your pump pulley. It may be underdriven and not pushing
> enough water through the system at speed.
>
> Food for thought.
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: james [mailto:jamesnazarian@netzero.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:56 PM
> To: v8
> Subject: more progress
>
>
> Yesterday I drove the V8 to work and back (20mi eachway), I overheated
once
> in
> each direction. On the way down I popped a hose off of one of my hard
> lines.
> On the way back I just overheated since I welded beads onto the ends of
the
> hardlines to retain them. After a little roadside diagnosis, I discovered
> that I had my fans blowing in the wrong direction. The poor things were
> blowing out the front of the car fighting the air. After fixing this and
> driving to work again, I am running at 200-210 on the highway, and 210-220
> in
> traffic, not bad in my estimation.
>
> I still haven't looked into the running probs although with the better
> cooling
> the car will restart when hot. But I'll save that for a separate message.
>
> james
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