Forget the stock rear ratio, maybe a 3:30 but no way stock.
On Mon, 04 Aug 1997 23:18:54 -0700 Allan Connell <alcon@earthlink.net>
writes:
>OK Team, now that we have dispensed with all of the other stuff,
>thought
>I'd bring up the slightly warm 260 issue again (Oh, NO!!)
>
>Anyway, (pay attention engineers, particularly the
>hydro-thermalconductance
>types....) with this sudden rash of warm temperatures down here near
>the
>border, my Tigger has been running a might Warm lately. Gets up
>around
>220-230 degress in about a half hour of driving with roughly 100
>degrees
>ambient outside. Fortunately, NO expulsion of fluid, so according to
>the
>best minds around here, I am technically NOT overheating....but if I
>fun it
>much longer, I think I will. Note that faulty (Fawlty?) non-stock and
>less
>than accurate mechanical gauge has been replaced with a bit more
>accurate
>stock gauge through the good graces and great charm of one Dick
>Barker.
>Yep, I tested it with my Fluke and it appears quite accurate.
>
>1) Cullen Bennet (or is it Bennet Cullen?? either way, I
>appologize....)
>has suggested that he gets good results from a custom Aluminium
>radiator
>built by a friend of his....anyone had a similar experience? And
>Cullen,
>if I order one of these $480 beauties from this guy, will it fit??
>Current
>radiator is three row (I think) with two tubes followed by one, and
>then
>two again. The current radiator fits fight up next to the rack and
>pinion....there just ain't no more room!
>
>2) Acquaintances smarter and better looking than myself (yeah, but _I_
>have
>the Tiger!) have suggested that I need a thermostat with a higher
>rating.
>That is to say that I replaced the previous thermostat with the same
>type.
>Though the manual calls for a 195 degree thermostat, I replaced the
>old one
>with the same 160 rated thermostat that I found in there. Seems some
>of
>these geniuses think that the water/glycol combo (50/50) does not get
>to
>say in the radiator long enough to be able to adequately cool the
>stuff....just races right through....don't know about this and would
>like
>all opinions....expletives must be included with any reference to my
>family
>lineage or breading.
>
>3) Finally, I am not looking for miracles: what I would like to be
>able to
>do is to get the beast to run in that 190-210 degree range that Tom
>Hall
>and others have indicated as optimum (yeah, I trust Tom more than
>Ford.....). One final thing I am planning on is to convert the
>rear-end
>gear set BACK to a 2.88 which I think is stock....from the current
>3.63 (?)
> This in and of it self might make a slight difference in operating
>temperature.....but the REAL question is, what do you all thing about
>performance???? Will I still be able to make the kids driving the
>rice
>burners cry, put thier hats back on forward and pull thier pants up
>where
>they belong when I blow thier doors off??? Huh??? will I, HUH????
>
>Sincerely appreciate your putting up the with annoyance of such innane
>requests, after all, I know you all would rather be talking about TU
>and
>goose poop....
>
>All kidding aside, thanks in advance for your opinions and shared
>wisdom.
>
>Regards,
>
>Allan
>B9472373
>
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