<VV> Flat Towing a Corvair

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

> I have flat-towed a PG equipped Stinger Autocross car... the fluid got 
> pretty hot.


I defer to Seth's experience, but he doesn't say that he towed his racer 
on a 100F day, nor that he keeps his home AC to 63F -- so, a hundred 
might feel hot?  The pan is probably close to pavement temp which could 
be 140-ish, which I would call hot enough cook eggs, but not boil water.

The big heat maker, the shearing of fluid in the torque converter is 
somewhat, I think, ingeneously cooled by the cooling fin fan that is 
part of the converter.  Without the engine running, and thus no fluid 
shearing, although the PG may get warm, I doubt it actually overheats.  
Although, as I said, stopping every couple hours is fine by me -- I 
generally drink too much caffiene when I drive.

What is this, a race car without a trans temp gauge?  Would be a nice 
item to have some data points on ...

Bill Strickland