Ulix Goettsch wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Bill Schooler wrote:
> > > Ulix wrote:
> > > > I don't turn the hot water tap off because supposedly that inhibits
> > > > cooling of No.4 cylinder.
> > >
> > > Really? Any comments from the peanut gallery?
> >
> > (Oh, what the heck - I'll chime in with flame bait.) I've seen this
> > nonsense comment before and don't believe it in the least. Remember
> > that this car was often produced without a heater at all. In many
> > markets, particularly the home market, a heater was an optional extra.
> > I had to laugh at the thought of driving around in these temperatures
> > with the heater radiator on. Good grief.
> >
> > Okay, I've done my best to get somebody's goat ;>) so let's hear an
> > explantion that makes sense from someone who buys into this theory. I
> > say that what you are doing by leaving the heater valve open is simply
> > lowering the overall coolant temperature by just a bit. Number four
> > wouldn't benefit any more than number one.
>
> I read this in Stapleton's book "How to make your Sprite outperform a
> 2liter twincam crossflow MGB", or some such title. He said that if you
> are removing the heater, replace it by a hose rather than blocking it off
> to keep water circulation going in the back of the block.
> I don't know how the water passages are designed in the rear of the block
> and what the pressure loss between the front and rear of the block is, but
> it probably can't hurt to have that extra pathway for hot coolant from
> the rear of the block back to the front.
>
> Ulix __/__,__
> .......................................................... (_o____o_).....
> '67 Sprite
Thought has crossed my mind that we're working under an assumption here
that water flow is the same in a Sprite as in an MGB. Confirmation,
anyone? I'm talking MGB, Ulix is talking Sprite - are we on the same
page on not?
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