Bruce
Higher flow will dump more btu's but only to a point.
Am not sure why (avoided the thermal dynamics class).
I can only talk from experiance.
Have seen a couple of vehicles where someone pulled
the thermostat and then it overheats on the highway.
Faster you go the faster it heats up. Put in a new
thermostat and they where just fine. Run down the
highway all day long no problem. My cousin a Chevy
mechanic said the thermostat acts as a restriction and
slows the coolant down. Laughed 1st time I asked him
about it. Said he has seen it more than once.
Steve
Howell, MI
Household fleet manager
97 Villager wife's
94 Sundance (170,000 miles) my comuter
89 Mitsubishi daughter's
83 F**d F250 son's
74 Cuttlass mine and son's project
looking for the right AD or TF
--- B&A Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net> wrote:
> I've heard about the slower water pump allowing more
> cooling, never tried
> it. The engineer in me says that slower flow will
> produce cooler exit
> water, but less of it. The higher flow will produce
> warmer water, but more
> of it. Net result is that higher flow should dump
> more heat (btu's) from
> the radiator and cool better. This is for what it
> is worth. We have a
> shop in town that engineers heavy equipment
> radiators from scratch and
> builds them as replacement for Cat, Lectra Haul, and
> others. I'll give
> their engineering department a call on Monday about
> this.
>
> Bruce Kettunen
> 57 3200
> Mt. Iron, MN
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