Miscellaneous Car News

Rob, my mate runs Evans in the Penske indy car, it runs at exactly the same temperature as my car with distilled water, wetting agent and corrosion inhibitor. He spent a lot of time and effort changing to Evans, I said at the time it wouldn't be worth it.

Glycol reduces the heat transfer rate of water, so I run no more than 20% coolant in road cars.

 

I LOLd at that

 

Ian , what about the boiling point of 190 as to the 109 of normal coolants?

I had it in that prewar MG and felt very comfortable with it .

The old T I run a strong mixture of coolant , but in traffic the gauge still climbs, never boiled her .

I don't want to mount an electric fan ,as they can be seen through the grille

 

I just knew only one person on here would have a constructive comment and it ain't horse.

 

He obviously knows more than the rest of us do then.

 

Alloy radiator,same as the fan all removable.

 

It needs an electric fan, obviously.

 

friend has done it on a Continental .

 

In the period they did not

 

FFS Rob are you going on a drive to enjoy yourself without mechanical issues or taking it to a concour?...Answer is pretty bloody obvious I'd have thought.

 

Both, no issue on the open highway .

The temp gauge climbs in hot weather stuck in traffic ,I'm wanting to control that if i get stuck in summer weather traffic.

I don't wish to fit an alloy radiator to an original car , that has the potential to win at a RROCA Federal Concour..The age and authenticity award .

 

Sooo of all the other Pommy cars going on this jaunt nobody else has done any cooling modification???

 

None of my fleet of Rolls-Royce Bentley motorcars have mods to the cooling .

When I had the blue Flying Spur an owner had fitted a cooling fan to the front of the radiator , I removed it , never had an issue including an Autumn drive in the Flinders rangers in heat sitting on 110mph for mile after mile.

Last photo my late stepfather ,when he pulled the motor out of his SIlver Cloud lll and fitted factory high compression piston,ported the heads and replaced a noisy camshaft at 40,000 miles in 1968, a brilliant engineer , who rebuilt the motor on my fathers V12 Phantom and overhauled the Packard Merlin in my Godfathers P51.,which sadly he was killed in.

Sadly his Rolls-Royce he bought when nearly new in 1965 and he had till his death in 2018 is now with his daughter parked in a shed on a farm ...feeling sad.
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Not talking about yours....all the other cars going on the run?

So you have a cooling issue with the car you're taking,take the one that doesn't.
Ask yourself why one has an issue in traffic and the other(s) don't and frigin; deal with it one way or the other,several folk here have given you options and all are reversible..talk about rocket science.

 

110 mph cruise eh?

How would you know.

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He's just being Rob The Pedantic on this.
I'm shoore you'll find he has one on the Graj.

 

Its easy the Silver Cloud lll has a much larger radiator as does the Corniche , the 1st series of Silver Shadows /T Series Bentley models were in the 1st 3 years or so NOT fitted with Air/Cond as standard and were fitted with smaller radiators ,around 1969 they fitted the larger capacity radiator .

 

No the engine fans blades are to close to the radiator .

 

You should stop now Simon, you are well out of your depth of knowledge when it comes to this marque.

 

You've just answered your question then,put a larger rad in,alloy or otherwise.

 

on that trip it worked .

 

As a project you could have a shroud custom made to house two electric fans.

 

shakes head , the Evens wetless will i believe fix any concerns I have in dense traffic

 

whats he need that for ?