Coolent system upgrade questions

[calimus at techography.net (calimus)]

Late, nope it just started.  Radiator is brand new, the 15 year old one blew
about 6 weeks ago (damn plastic) and I replaced it.  When I did that I went
to the very little coolent, lots of water wetter and mostly water mix.  It
helped, but not much.  This is why I'm figureing it's the t-stat, even
though it's only 2 years old.  Currently, the rocco just got drained, I'm
making a quick run to a friends house thats holding me reworked head so I
can make the arrangements to get that back.  Leacing the car to drain and
then I'll be flushing the system out with straight water.  So comment away,
I'll be back to check in about 30min

William
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allyn" <amalventano@sc.rr.com>
To: "calimus" <calimus@techography.net>; "Scirocco-l"
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: Coolent system upgrade questions


> im kinda jumping into this thread a bit late (it appears this has been an
> ongoing saga).
> please tell me you have tried running straight water with VERY LITTLE
> coolant. like 10-15%. then try and see how cool it runs. also, you could
try
> flushing the radiator with purple power (off of the car, of course).
> Al
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "calimus" <calimus@techography.net>
> To: "Scirocco-l" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 2:47 PM
> Subject: Coolent system upgrade questions
>
>
> > Ok, so temps in the rocco still arn't what they used to be so it's time
ot
> > take things a step further.
> >
> > What I picked up
> > 160F t-stat
> > 2gal of VW "Orange" coolent  (dats some exspensive shit)
> > 16v passat dual radiator fan + new belt
> >
> > SO I'm sure you see where this is going.  Things I'm unsure of: How the
> > hell
> > to mount the dual fan system to a scirocco 16v w/AC radiator.  It
> > certainly
> > doesn't line up with anything and I knew it wouldn't.  But al also know
> > that
> > some of you folks run this system and have solutions.  Now I'd like to
> > have
> > a good solution, I already tossed out the zip tie idea as I'm shooting
for
> > a
> > much cleaner look.  So anything not involving zip ties is more then
> > welcome.
> >
> > Now, I'd also like some validation for why I bought the orange coolent.
> > I've had a few different folks tell me it's what I should use, though
non
> > were technical enough to give me good reasons other then "it's whats in
my
> > jetta/passat/golf".  So is there anything different between the orange
> > stuff
> > and your average everyday prestone coolent?
> >
> > Ok, while I await all the answers, I'm gonna go drain my damn coolent
> > system
> > for the 3rd time this year in hopes of cooling this thing off since I'm
> > pretty sure it's the t-stat now.  But I'm always looking for ways to
make
> > her run cooler.
> >
> > William Snyder
> >
> > 88' Scirocco 16v
> > 89' Cabriolet 8v
> > 71' Karmann Ghia
> >
> >
> >
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