Robbie J

Go for it. I had one fitted and the only thing you might be wary of it, is that on coller evenings it will run a fair bit cooler than the normal operating temp. Woth keeping an eye on the oil temp when that happens as that runs cooler obviously as well. But if you are concerned about overheating it puts all those worries to rest!

I used to have a 1.6K SS and was continually troubled in the early days by the temp of the water and also the oil temperature being driven up by the water temp. One thing that no one else has mentioned...... on the water rail on the head of the engine - there is a brass outlet, inside this outlet(return pipe) is a ball bearing. If this ball bearing gets stuck the only movement of heat away from the engine is by thermal movement in the water and not by water flow, as the water doesn't - flow that is :) It might worth your while getting this checked. AFter i had this done it certainly cured the problem. However I went over to the large Aluminium racing radiator, mainly as I did track days and also runs down to the South of France during summer when the ambient temp was considerably warmer than the UK, plus the car was being driven quite hard. The only problems I had after that was on some evenings it ran a little cold!!!!! Edited by - Robbie J on 19 Aug 2000 09:31:38