When the air is "thick and around 68 degrees" - this is when the air-cooled engines run their best - especially at dusk on a cool summer's eve, just after a rain storm has passed through...maybe this relates to other factors as well. Squirting the radiator or oil cooler can't be that much different than driving through a very very very thick fog, or maybe the Bavarian Alps? So why would putting dense moisture on a hot surface make that device less capable of radiating heat? Apropos the water injector system - on Westys you could use the water pump with a second line going under the car.....or why not put a water jacket around the oil cooler?
DC
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