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Old Oct 4, 2011 | 07:19 PM
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Talking Re: Lowering my water temperatures
Just me but consider reducing the antifreeze percentage to like 30% or Id go to all water and water pump lubricant and rust inhibitor. Antifreeeze has lousy specific heat and only makes use of about 60% of the radiator due to this factor. Water has a SH of 1.0 and is the best if not inhibited by additives, steel has a SH of about 0.12 !!!! some 8 times less than water. I did a posting long ago about this and reduced my % to the minimum for va weather, I never need -0 temp protection.

At 140 you fan pails in comparison to the task of cooling, thankfully the fan cant add to the about 165 feet per second air flow thru the radiator. Woody
 
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