Radiator Fans

Postby **Okibi** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:58 pm

It can also mean that the water flows faster and doesn't spend longer in the radiator and can make the car run hotter.

Locutus · Postby **Locutus** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:00 pm

Okibi wrote:It can also mean that the water flows faster and doesn't spend longer in the radiator and can make the car run hotter.

i have zero experience with this, but conversely it should also mean that the water spends less time being heated inside the engine.

but hotter (slower?) running through the radiator should allow it to operate more efficiently.

PUR157 · Postby **PUR157** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:47 pm

On the topic of no thermostat, if it's anything like my thermostat being frozen open (oh noesss... dead weight!)

It meant that the car took ages to warm up, and was very sensitive to temperature change
If ambient was about 10 degrees I could do a whole trip at quarter temp...
Any colder and I could drive from Hornsby to Epping (20 or so minute trip with a flowing run) having barely left C... :shock:

Long story short I don't think I did my car many favours until I replaced the thermo