[DeTomaso] radiator deal

[Kirby Schrader]

Use the Mike Trusty/John Taphorn/Space City Panteras cooling mods and worry
no more.

As I have stated before, I have it done something similar on my GT40 and I
am doing it now on my Pantera. I will implement it on my son's Pantera that
he's restoring, too.

Hard to beat a well proven method.

FWIW,
Kirby


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 14:56, <richard at hitecheng.on.ca> wrote:

> Just curious, has anybody tried opening up the by-pass holes, this would
> slow down warm up a little but it would reduce the restriction. I have
> never
> had a cooling problem but I am at the start of building a stroker motor.
> Richard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JDeRyke at aol.com
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 3:13 PM
> To: kenn_green at yahoo.com ; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] radiator deal
>
> In a message dated 2/24/11 2:40:49 PM, kenn_green at yahoo.com writes:
>
> > Basically that increased flow rate is necesary for high HP, and the flow
> > rate is limited by the Pantera cooling system design, and by multi-pass
> > radiators in particular.
> >
> I disagree with the last part. The main flow restriction in a Pantera is
> from the thermostat. You can verify this easily in your own Pantera by
> removing the thermostat entirely (no other changes) and driving your
> Pantera
> on a
> hot day. You will have trouble getting the water temp to 150 F! This is
> regardless of what radiator you have. One member from AZ was amazed to find
> that
> while running in his stock GT-5 (brass radiator, stock water pump and
> factory pusher fans but no thermostat) , he only showed 150-170F- in June
> in
> Las
> Vegas while thrashing it hard on track in 2nd & 3rd gear. Adding ONLY a
> 190F
> thermostat shot his operating temperatures up to 210-220 on an easy 500
> mile
> road trip up to my place in northern NV. Try it and see. Cheers- J DeRyke
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