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Originally Posted by Tugboat
Doug,
Only mechanical related issue is that my car never got above 150 degrees water temp and that was idleing with no fan. Under road conditions mine would drop to 110-120 F water temp. This probably isn't good. I think by putting in the racing 170 degree thermostat with the bypass hole the water never slowed up enough to heat. We build these Texas cars to not get hot, didn't think about the winter issue. Well probably will NEVER have to worry about it again!!! 
Larry |
I am driving mine more than I thought I would during the winter, which is great, but I have on my winter projects to probably change out the thermostat to 180 degree version (I have 160 now with weep holes as well) and put in an
oil cooler thermostat too. Temp is fine just puttering around with fans off, but any kind of speed drops the temps too low to be good. Don't want to do that very long.
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