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To: british-cars@hoosier.cs.utah.edu
Subject: Thermostat
From: Greg Meythaler <Greg_Meythaler@ccm.hf.intel.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 92 10:03:47 PST
          The theory behind running a thermostat housing rather than
          running with no thermostat, is that you need to provide some
          restriction in the system to slow the coolant flow.
          If you run with no thermostat, the coolant circulates to
          quickly. The coolant will pick up the heat in the engine but
          then can not get rid of it because it does not spend enough
          time in the radiator. So it circulates back into the engine
          still hot with very little heat capacity left. So the net
          result is that you can actually run hotter without a
          thermostat than with one.
          The restriction allows the coolant to spend more time in the
          radiator and get cooled off before returning to inferno in
          the engine block.

                            greg_meythaler@ccm.hf.intel.com


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