I'm not sure that the premise that the valve being closed causes any
cylinder overheating problem, at least I've never heard this before. There
is still a water jacket around the last cylinder allowing water to
circulate. The valve just allows water to be diverted from the cylinder
head to the core. Since race engines have this opening capped, I can't
imagine that this is really a problem.
Gerard
At 1:48 PM -0400 5/5/99, Jackson Zimmermann wrote:
>I've got a quick question to those intrepid scroungers out there, does
>anyone know of a nice cable operated heater control valve that bypasses the
>heater core? I'm fed up with having to do with or without heat all the
>time. I know that using the twist knob is not good because it starves
>cylinder 3 of cooling and during the summer I often totally disconnect the
>heater core. But during the spring and fall, its often hot during the day
>(i.e. I would like airflow into the footwells if the heater core were not
>full of hot water) and very cool at night (particularly when sunburned, so
>heat would be appreciated). Has anyone rigged up a good solution to this
>with easily available parts? How did you install it in on the dash and how
>does it look? Is the MGB heater control setup bypass or shutoff? Other
>suggestions? TIA
>
>Jackson Zimmermann
>jzimmerm@albemarle.org
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