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Hong Kong Phooey wrote: | Hmmm, frontal area is quite small |
Looks small, but it's a notoriously bad shape and those big wheels and arches won't make it any better.
Mini tuning guru Richard Longman reckoned it didn't matter how much power you put under it, the drag the shape created meant you could never get more than 125 mph out of one and all of his writings on the subject said fitting wide wheels (the first thing all the boy racers did) did more harm than good.
Having said that, I don't think even he spent 5 years + getting a 275 odd BHP motor and AWD into that bodyshell, so he might be proved wrong,
I'll be interested to see how they finally gear it, for top end or acceleration. ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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MarJay wrote: | Shaft wrote: |
I spend a lot of time working with Triumph Stags and there's a lucrative business in ally, large core rads, matched to electric fans; except they don't work as well as a good condition standard fan and rad. |
Apparently if maintained properly the cooling system is fine. It's the iron block and ally heads that generate quite a lot of corrosion that blocks the OEM rad. |
Without wishing to go too far OT, the original problem was a combination of poor maintenance and lazy manufacturing.
Sand cast heads that weren't cleaned out properly at the assembly stage (I've seen lumps of sand fall out of original heads) that allowed grit to circulate around the engine.
Poor maintenance came down to the regime of the day; nobody was used to aluminium heads, so the general MO was to run water in the Summer, anti freeze in the Winter, which contains the corrosion inhibitors that ally heads need all the year round, hence a corrosion/silt build up.
Plus there's an inherent design fault with the Stag engine, which places the water pump at the same height as the radiator header tank, so if you allow the coolant level to drop, the pump has nothing to circulate.
Run it on decent coolant all the time and check the level once a week, you have one of the most efficient cooling systems of any car on the road. ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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There now doing the same thing with a car transporter made from a old library van
https://youtu.be/6HXSigszx5w ____________________ "Nitrous is like a cheap hooker, you want to hit it but are scared of the consequences |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 4 years, 198 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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