[DeTomaso] To thermostat or not to thermostat

[Göran Malmberg]

I usually run as little water as possible to shorten warm up period.
I believe the moost critical for waterspeed is to prevent from head spot
boiling.
Goran
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Green" <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
To: "Don Thomas" <dtpantera at gmail.com>; "Jim Gray" <jimgray at cableone.net>
Cc: "Will Kooiman" <wkooiman at earthlink.net>; "DeTomaso List" 
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Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] To thermostat or not to thermostat


> Actually, I think convective heat transfer involves the expansion of a 
> heated fluid (usually air) and rising resulting in heat transfer.  I think 
> we are dealing with conductive heat transfer.
>
>  I think the big question to ask is the flow rate for a given radiator 
> where the flow becomes turbulant.  Seems like you'd like to at least reach 
> that level.
>
>  The big radiators I picked up for Dennis (MD) and myself are huge single 
> pass radiators which were made for use on Super Speedways.  Seems like the 
> flow would be pretty slow and I really don't know if it is turbulant or 
> not.  But they do have a very large volume, so the water is in them for a 
> longer time.  I'll send an email to the manufacturer (Ron Davis) and see 
> what they say.
>
>  Ken
>
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