Thread: 327 What's your average water temp?

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If I'm not mistaken, antifreeze is just that, antifreeze (and anticorrosives). Water actually disipates heat better than antifreeze.

no antifreeze dissapates heat better than water, but only to a certain point, as long as you've got a proper mix it will... the way to really make your cooling system cool better though is put water wetter in instead of antifreeze, i did it on my car and she dropped 20 degrees on running temp

I run 50/50 af/h20 with hi-ouput water pump, a 10" pusher (always on), and a 16" puller electric (thermostaticially controled) on my 34 (350 ci/350hp) and it normally runs in warm weather at about 200. No fancy radiator, aluminum or otherwise, not even a big name unit like Walker or Griffin, etc., just an old radiator with trans cooler in the bottom. I can sit (had to recently) and idle for an hour and it goes no higher than 210. Only shroud is that which is build around the puller, not a full coverage shroud. So far for the past 17 years very few water related problems. Hope it stays that way.

Originally Posted by thesals

no antifreeze dissapates heat better than water, but only to a certain point, as long as you've got a proper mix it will... the way to really make your cooling system cool better though is put water wetter in instead of antifreeze, i did it on my car and she dropped 20 degrees on running temp

Well I am going to try the water wetter first.. for $7.95 a bottle it seems worth a try. Next I will try a fan pushing more cfm, then a shroud.

Sound about right? I need to do something, unless I am crusing at 55' she gets hot (210-220) quickly (30-35 min around town)... no traffic, just regular lights.

also what intake and headers are you running? and base and total timing