At 05:20 PM 11/17/2002, Loren A. Busch wrote: >may help in cold weather, but you are interfering with what may be a >critical portion of the cooling system. The engine cooling system in >the Wasserboxer is marginal enough (seems to have just enough heat >transfer capability to keep up with the engine) without eliminating a >lot of surface area that is doing at least part of the cooling. You may >well find yourself pulling the insulation off when you start driving in >hot weather. I have to disagree here -- that monster radiator is plenty big enough for a much larger engine than they actually put in the V'gon, at least in normal climates. Maybe at some ridiculous smoking-desert ambient it might run out of extra. If the cooling system is marginal, it's because it's broken, not underdesigned. In any case, when the heaters are shut off there's no flow in that line, hence no heat loss to speak of. :) david
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