[DeTomaso] Heater control valve

Rob Dumoulin rob at dumoulins.net
Tue Mar 22 22:59:24 EDT 2011


You misunderstood me. I have had cars overheating and turning the heat on in
the Florida summer swelter saved an overboil. It's hard to dispute a temp
gauge that goes down as the heater is turned on. It works.
On Mar 22, 2011 10:36 PM, "B. Seib" <oldwheel at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Rob
> It may be that if you hadn't wasted a portion of the flow to feed the
heater
> on hot days, the increased flow through the rad might have prevented or
> reduced the overheating. Any pressure from the outlet of the water pump
that
> doesn't go through the rad will reduce the maximum cooling capacity of any
> given system.
> JMO
> Barry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Dumoulin [mailto:rob at dumoulins.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:56 PM
> To: michael at michaelshortt.com
> Cc: michael at michaelshortt.com; B. Seib; DetomasoList; Larry Finch
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Heater control valve
>
>
> As a personal note, I have had to put my heater on many of my rods to help
> reduce temps on overheating cars until I've been able to get to a place
> where I can cool or fix it. Running the heater works to help overheating
> cars. Period.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:48 PM, michael at michaelshortt.com
> <michaelsavga at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> reminds me of a scene from "The Gumball Rally" when Ace the racer who
> drove
> the 70 or 71 beige split bumper big block Camaro had his navigator Gary
> Busey turn on the heat because the engine temp was rising, they were
> both
> sweating like crazy.
>
> Now back to your heater valve thread.
>
> Michael Shortt
>
> On Mar 22, 2011 7:34 PM, "B. Seib" <oldwheel at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > Larry
> > I don't want to beat this to death but...
> > I disagree.
> >
> > ANY device that allows coolant coming from the water pump to come back
> to
> > the engine block without having to go through the radiator reduces the
> > cooling capacity of the system. If the heater core is an effective
> radiator,
> > then it would be the only exception. I doubt that is ever the case and
> most
> > of us don't want to drive around with the heater on high to help cool
> the
> > engine.
> >
> > Any bypass of the radiator results in less cooling.
> > It's not just the thermostat that you are bypassing, it's also the
> radiator!
> >
> > Respectfully
> > Barry
> >
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