[DeTomaso] FW: Lay down rad or -WHY DO YOU NEED COOLING FANS???

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...and I thought it was the "special liquid". I'm sure I've seen the dawg use the surge tank as a firehydrant more than once :-)


Mad Dog Antenucci wrote:
> Bingo Dave -  Fluidyne oil to water cooler (heat exchanger). I should also let JT or Dick speak to modifying the lines. Just one small surge tank replaced the two bottles.
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> Steve Hawkins <shawkins777 at comcast.net> wrote:  
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> From: Dave Londry [mailto:davel at emspace.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:09 PM
> To: Asa Jay Laughton
> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Lay down rad or -WHY DO YOU NEED COOLING FANS???
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> Maybe you want to ask about the oil cooler.
> A good one unloads the cooling system quite a bit.
> dave
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> Asa Jay Laughton wrote: 
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> C'mon Dawg, you have to be fair here, you need to tell us what you have 
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> for a water pump, lines, sizes, overflow tanks, pressure tank, cap style 
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> and pressure, thermostat, etc.  They -all- contribute to an efficient 
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> Which brings me to another question....  Anybody got a set of tanks they 
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> want to part with?
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> Mad Dog Antenucci wrote:
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> Thanks Ken but Mike't logic is based on the same old List misinformation.
> And that is if hasn't been invented or redesigned on the List it must not or
> can not work.
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> And as far as engine failures are concerned its just more misinformation. I
> haven't grenaded an engine since 2000.  Yea, I've lost a dist. sheer pin in
> 2004 and a pully belt in 2005 but Russ Fulps engines have been golden
> through open track and street use and no one has completed more open road
> races then I have with Russ Fulps engines...no one has even come close and I
> suspect no one ever will.....okay maybe after I'm dead ;-]>
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> The only reason I asked Russ to rebuild the engine  the end of 2007 was
> because we were adding the IR-EFI. Mike Trusty and Dick Drenske dialing in
> the engine at a stand still never had an overheating condition. And we never
> had an overheating condition on the street or on the track or in open road
> racing...again measured with new gauges and thermal gun.  
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> I think the hood vents help reduce lift and may even reduce front end lift
> and wot temps in open road racing but they don't provide any assist in stop
> and go traffic.   
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> Ken Green    wrote:  
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>  Mike,
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>  I understand that what Dennis has seen is very unexpected, but I don't
> think he's had an engine failure for a while, and he's watching both water
> and oil temp.  If the water temp gauge was that far off, it's hard to
> believe he'd also see a low oil temp.
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>  The only thing I can even stetch to suggest is that with hood vents to let
> air rise through the radiator and out the vents, he's getting a convective
> air flow even stationary.  Otherwise I have no idea why he's seeing what
> he's seeing.  also, aluminum is a great heat conductor, and the radiator is
> jammed in position, so maybe heat is also being conducted into the body?
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>  Ken
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> --- On Fri, 6/13/08, MikeLDrew at aol.com  
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> Sounds like a certain knucklhead doggie has an inoperative water temperature
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> gauge; perhaps that's why his motors are so short-lived?
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> Any car, any radiator, will overheat without airflow over the radiator.
> You 
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> could hang Lake Michigan off the front of your car, and let it idle for a
> few 
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> minutes and it will overheat without airflow.
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> Mike
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