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From: Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Russell Duffy
Sent: Saturday,
September 06, 2003 7:12 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: water
flow restrictor
Although I would probably prefer to run a thermostat, my water pump
housing lost the ability to house a thermostat when it got chopped down to
size.
Depending on how your pump housing was cut
down, this might not be a good idea. You'd have to make sure you always
had flow, so perhaps a restrictor is a better idea. The size of the
restrictor will be trial and error, since it will be dependent on your radiator
cooling capability. I couldn't get the water temp over 130 without a
thermostat, but my radiator is pretty huge, and obviously isn't absorbing any
heat from the oil like it's supposed to.