Tim,
Yes the California winter here is hell! Hasn't gotten below 55 degrees yet.
Today I did need to speed home though because it looked like it may rain.
However, I haven't had the top up yet for 6 months.
Scott in Palos Verdes
B9471989
>From: "Ronak, TP (Timothy)" <Timothy.P.Ronak@akzo-nobel.com>
>Reply-To: "Ronak, TP (Timothy)" <Timothy.P.Ronak@akzo-nobel.com>
>To: "'Laifman@Flash.Net'" <Laifman@Flash.Net>
>CC: "'Tiger News Group List'" <tigers@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Cold start truths
>Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 08:57:30 -0600
>
>Steve and Listers,
>As a matter of fact if you want to race cars with a dry sump up here in
>Canada in September (Theo probably recalls the events called on account of
>snow). You have to preheat the engine oil or the engine just plain will not
>be lubricated due to the distance the oil needs to be pushed through lines.
>To mitigate this at the track given that there was not a log fire handy we
>obtained a stick on patch (deeeecal) on the side of our dry sump tank that
>connected to our trusty Honda generator. The patch was a piece of crap as
>it
>just fell off of the tank first time out. We then went to a very long (10")
>engine block heater that we just plugged into the generator after is was
>almost fully submerged in the oil by poking it in the top of the tank. Once
>we saw a curl of smock coming form the top of the tank and the tank felt
>sufficiently warm we would fire the car up. We used Mobil 1 20/50 with
>great
>success.
>
>PS: Steve is it with ridicule or genuine interest that you expose the Cold
>Start Secrets. My experience is that if you walk by a Californians car with
>an ice cream cone they consider that a cold start condition. Let me guess,
>the winter in California is supposed to get sooooo bad this year you might
>actually have to put the roof up on the Tiger.
>
>Best regards,
>Tim Ronak
>The Canadian trying to defect (Don't hold it against me)
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