Evans Coolant (again, was Puyallup VW Swap Meet)

[mr.utility at highstream.net (David Utley)]

Sounds like it might be helping, who knows...  

  In my experience, I definately needed the air/oil cooler after the install 
of the Evans, and I would highly recommend it...  At the very least, I would 
remove the "oil heater" and plumb the water lines accordingly...

  BTW, if you have a headgasket issue, I would plan on getting that taken care 
of quickly.  Also, if the oil is leaking out, it is possibly leaking into the 
bores while running as well...  I would keep your RPMs down when it is cold 
(sounds like you prolly do anways), also, for shiznits and giggles, you might 
throw some Chevron Techron at it, the 10-12 dollar bottle.  Then drive the 
piss out of it, if there is a build-up of carbon from oil leaking in, it will 
do away with it...  However, if it was there, and you do have a H/G leaking, 
it will prolly build up again IF that is the cause...

Just some ideas...

Good luck with it all, and I would like to hear from you on your experience 
with Evans...

David Utley

Quoting "Camron D. Crouse" <camron@worldaccessnet.com>:

> 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>:
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Now officially running Evans Coolant 100% .
> >>
> >>- Camron from Vancouver, WA USA
> >>   '86.5 Black 16V 2.0L
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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)...
> >
> >Let us know when you have the chance...
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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