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Makes absolutely no sense.
First, make sure the spring is installed as it pulls on the cooling flaps so
in the event of a malfunction they default to open. Every piece NEEDS to be
there -- luckily there are very few pieces.
Second, it doesn't matter if you live on the equator, the engine NEEDS the
cooling system intact so it will warm up quickly and get to operating temp
AND stay there...which is a lot hotter than you and I can withstand but
pretty good for cooking hotdogs. Only full-on racers and those who want to
shorten their engine life run without a full engine cooling system. Period.
Toby Erkson -- air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
'72 VW Squareback, '95 VW Jetta, '81 Gold Wing,
'73 Porsche 914, '90 Wet Jet
http://www.icbm.org/
Portland, Oregon
>-----Original Message-----
>...So, my best guess is the engine simply got too
>hot. We're now thinking, when we build the next engine, that
>we will remove those flaps completely. We live in the Pacific
>Northwest, Vancouver B.C., where it never gets that cold and
>so we probably don't need those flaps. Maybe the engine will
>simply run a bit cooler all the time. Does that make sense to you?
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