Randall wrote a nice answer to this but I'll chime in anyway only because I also drive a GT6+.
On 15 Dec 2007 at 12:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 70 GT6 +, runs too hot for me. Just a bit over half on the > NOS SMITHS temp gauge. Does not boil over under any conditions Just over half isn't what I'd consider hot. The fact that it reads like that all the time, even with a different thermostat and in different kinds of weather, says that it is working just fine. (I think mine runs right at the halfway point, but slightly above wouldn't scare me unless it kept climbing. I have seen it run hotter. Of course, right now it isn't running at all, given the amount of snow and salt all over the place here.) > Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, Beverly > refuses to ride in the GT6+ for her seat is directly behind > the exhaust header and really on fire. I have to hose her > down after a sort trip. Ah, that's a different problem. I hold different beliefs from most supposed experts about keeping a car cool, even some real experts here. The most important thing you can do to keep the interior of the car cool is improve air circulation around the engine and gearbox. For example, many people, which includes the factory, installed insulation under the tranny cover. The trouble is, it reduces the airflow through there. When the insulation eventually becomes saturated with oil, as it inevitably will, the insulation doesn't insulate very well, but the airflow doesn't get any better. So more heat is transferred to the interior, and an additional downside is that the gearbox runs correspondingly hotter. When I bought my GT6+ it had no shrouds around the engine or radiator. (The Spitfire did, but IIRC they are no longer in place.) Sure the GT6 is warm inside but not so much as to make Sharon complain. We open the windows (old-style "acoustic" air conditioning). We've driven 3-hr trips in 95degF weather. I have no proof of this claim but I suspect if I put in shrouds around the engine the entire compartment would get hotter and the firewall and tranny cover would feel much warmer inside the car. For what it's worth, both my cars have the plastic tranny cover from TRF, indifferently installed (because they fit indifferently well until I work at them some), with no additional insulation. -- Jim Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
