<VV> LM turbos and no lower shrouds

[Eric S. Eberhard]

As is easily discovered in many articles on the Web, running oil 
temps lower than the 210-220 range is VERY BAD for your engine.  You 
WILL build up sludge, increase friction, reduce mileage, and risk 
catastrophic engine failure when the sludge gets to be too 
much.  Which was my point -- if you are running a stock engine in 
stock conditions (e.g. as a normal road car) then the stock cooling 
will provide the desired heat RANGE to keep everything correct as it 
was engineered.  I have no opinion on modified cars without a lot of 
study on the particular car. E

At 09:00 AM 10/24/2011, you wrote:
>Message: 4
>Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:46:51 -0700
>From: Chris & Bill Strickland <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: <VV> LM turbos and no lower shrouds
>To: VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>Message-ID: <4EA4FBCB.1020302 at earthlink.net>
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> >  You may think the cooling is inadequate but I'll bet there are more
> >  owners that think the heating is inadequate.
>
>I bet forty years ago, this same group of owners  would be flip-flopped
>on this survey.  Face it folks, many of us have "matured" a bit since
>driving literally everywhere in a "spirited" manner was typical.
>
>Look at us -- many seem to deem switching from short shrouds for summer
>to long shrouds for winter is too much trouble, so they run one or the
>other year round and say the "cooling is okay" or the "heat is okay" --
>as we know, that is a pile of bull, whether we will admit it or not.
>
>I have been running a Lakewood since spring, shrouds off  (short shrouds
>added after the NW Econo-Run to Victoria -- I really needed "some"
>heat), in fairly "spirited" driving, and the oil temp gauge was reading
>about 220 F most of the time, but now that cooler weather is here, I
>find days when the oil temp will barely reach 200 F, and I'm going to
>get the full shrouds back on -- no stats planned, yet.  carefully
>deflashed, 62 fan, and folded fin.  dino.  need a thermister.
>
>fwiw,
>
>Bill Strickland


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