[DeTomaso] coolant bypass

michael@michaelshortt.com michaelsavga at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 14:52:20 EST 2012


Hot water needs to remain in the radiator for a certain time to be cooled,
thus the restriction aspect of a thermostat or a Moroso Flow Ring,
if the water just wet through as fast as it could, it wouldn't be cooled
enough to make any real significant difference.

Michael Shortt

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Curt Hall <cuvee at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> If that is the case? Why not just remove the thermostat all together and
> remove the brass ring under it?
>
> --- On Thu, 2/2/12, gow2 at rc-tech.net <gow2 at rc-tech.net> wrote:
>
>
> From: gow2 at rc-tech.net <gow2 at rc-tech.net>
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] coolant bypass
> To: "Curt Hall" <cuvee at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: gow2 at rc-tech.net, "Dave Londry" <davel at emspace.com>, "Justin
> Greisberg" <justingreisberg at hotmail.com>, detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Thursday, February 2, 2012, 11:11 AM
>
>
> It is just the size of the passage through the thermostat. Add 2 and you
> can get 2x as much water through. Look at a thermostat and see how small
> the hole is the water passes trough. With long narrow tubes in a Pantera
> anything to keep the flow going.
>
>
>
> > Dumb question...if the thermostat restricts flow, how does adding a
> second
> > thermostat help the flow?
> >
> > --- On Thu, 2/2/12, Dave Londry <davel at emspace.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: Dave Londry <davel at emspace.com>
> > Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] coolant bypass
> > To: gow2 at rc-tech.net
> > Cc: "Justin Greisberg" <justingreisberg at hotmail.com>,
> detomaso at realbig.com
> > Date: Thursday, February 2, 2012, 9:36 AM
> >
> >
> > I like the 2 thermostats a lot Gary.
> > The thermostat is the real flow restrictor in the system, even when it's
> > open
> > Getting rid of it or doubling it up makes good sense.
> > dave
> >
> > On 01/02/2012 6:42 PM, gow2 at rc-tech.net wrote:
> >> I think I would also add,
> >>
> >> -Allows more water to circulate during warm up
> >> -I wanted to try 2 thermostats to increase flow
> >> -Were Pantera guys, it's what we do.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Justin,
> >>>
> >>> If you're happy with your car, then stick with it!
> >>>
> >>> I wasn't.
> >>>
> >>> Since the tank is on the high pressure side of the water pump, I was
> >>> running a 24lb cap on it and it would still puke coolant when I backed
> >>> off
> >>> the throttle at 7200rpm.
> >>> It would run kinda' OK in 100F+ temperatures, even with a nice new
> >>> Pantera
> >>> Performance aluminum radiator. Kinda' OK wasn't acceptable.
> >>>
> >>> After changing the system to a remote thermostat and moving the tank to
> >>> the low pressure side, using the Mike Trusty/John Taphorn modification
> >>> whatever you want to call it, I have none of those problems.
> >>>
> >>> Note that these changes make a Pantera cooling system act just like any
> >>> modern car's cooling system.
> >>>
> >>> Works for me. If what you have works for you, then I'd recommend
> >>> leaving
> >>> it.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Kirby
> >>>
> >>> On Feb 1, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Justin Greisberg wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> why are we doing this?  why don't we just use a cleveland thermostat
> >>>> on
> >>>> a cleveland block?  i do, and the car seems to run fine and cool on
> >>>> the
> >>>> street.  justin
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