Evans Coolant (again, was Puyallup VW Swap Meet)

[camron at worldaccessnet.com (Camron D. Crouse)]

I have had several tune-ups lately, so my car has been running much 
better in general...  I had been somewhat conservative in my driving 
habits due to cracked crossmenber (now repaired with xmember 
reinforcement), poor running (now replaced with new O2), and aging 
timing belt (next repair).  Well, I drive pretty conservatively 
_anyway_, but the Monday afternoon heading into work I really mashed the 
pedal down and man, what a nice feeling... Before my O2 was replaced, I 
noticed the top of my powerband fell off abruptly after maybe 5500 RPM, 
but now the powerband stays much stronger up high.  Been stuffing that 
pedal a bit every chance I get now!  Difficult to say if it was new 
coolant or not.  I had been running ~90% Sierra  for last two weeks 
(much longer than I anticipated, but I worked 7 days last week and had 
no chance to change t-stat/coolant/p-steering), and noticed considerably 
higher oil temps so was too chicken to push it then.

Oil temp has still been been considerably warmer with the new stuff, 
~230F - 240F.  While running Sierra, oil temp had once gone to ~250F 
before I noticed and turned on the heater. Yikes!  I used to run about 
220F, tops, on my old coolant. (And I do mean old; this series was the 
first coolant change I did in the three years I've owned the car, though 
it has only been my daily driver for about half that.)  I think people 
here were discussing slightly higher engine temps help burn off 
contaminants, I hope these temps will be suitable enough.  Am also maybe 
half quart low on oil right now, so that's no help.  I lose oil from a 
slightly leaky headgasket, what a yucky mess.

Coolant guage needle has been "just above" the blinky light (not 
blinking) during these higher oil temps, so I hope the new stuff is 
doing its job. A bit higher than the old coolant at regular running temp.

Am also running Dyson full Synthetic 15w-50.  92 Premium Chevron 
(highest I can get here in PNW).  When I first bought the car, I pinged 
badly on "regular" (87? no problems on my old stock 16V's), so I 
immediately moved up to premium and pings went away except maybe hot 
days at full throttle.  We'll see if the pings go away entirely this 
summer. (No pinging this week so far)

Butt Dyno happier these days.

- Camron from Vancouver, WA USA
   '86.5 Black 16V 2.0L



David Utley wrote:

>Quoting "Camron D. Crouse" <camron@worldaccessnet.com>:
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>>Now officially running Evans Coolant 100% .
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>>- Camron from Vancouver, WA USA
>>   '86.5 Black 16V 2.0L
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>So,
>  Have you had time to make any observations of a huge increase in power 
>yet?  ;-)  I am curious to hear what your reactions are (good or bad)...
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>Let us know when you have the chance...
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>David Utley
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