[DeTomaso] gumball pantera purging air from cooling system

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

What is your Anti-Freeze to Water ratio?

Michael Shortt

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Lee, Patrick Q <patrick.q.lee at rbc.com>wrote:

> I found strangely enough that 2 bottles of Lubegard Kool-it mixed with
> water wound up lowering my temperature on average 10-15 degrees.
> I wouldn't have believed it as I have tried using Water Wetter etc with
> no resulting improvement.
> I have a 393 stroker with 11.5:1 compression and it completely
> overpowered my stock system. I eventually went to a Fluidyne radiator,
> Spal cooling fans (2 pushers and 1 sucker), High flow waterpump, 180
> degree Robert Shaw stat etc but the cooling was always a little
> marginal.
> 195 degrees or so on a warm day in traffic. I flushed the system in the
> summer and added the Lubegard with water and now I am running 170
> degrees or so on the
> highway and 180 degrees in traffic. I'll have to wait until next summer
> to see how it does on a hot day but it has never run this cool even in
> the winter.
> I can't really explain it as I was using a water plus Norosion mixture
> before. The only minor differences are that I am running a 10-30 Amsoil
> synthetic now instead of the dino oil
> and I am dialed up a couple of jets larger due to a low restriction
> exhaust but otherwise it appears to be the Lubegard Kool-it. Weird or
> what?
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