A member’s earlier post got me wondering …
Have a ’75 350 small block.
No heater or heater hoses.
Has a half-inch plug in the top of the water pump.
Has a half-inch plug in a hole just to the driver side of the water neck on an older Edelbrock manifold.
Did not have a thermostat when I got it. Put in a 160-deg thermostat. Did not drill it.
At start up consistently goes to 190, then drops back to 160 when the stat opens. (On a warm to hot day it can creep back up to 190 ..in traffic. But o.k. for how I drive it …no parades).
Would a by-pass hose between the two half-inch holes make any kind of difference? Drill the thermostat? Run without one? Leave as-is? (I say 1/2 inch on the holes ..just guessing, probably bigger)
Have a ’75 350 small block.
No heater or heater hoses.
Has a half-inch plug in the top of the water pump.
Has a half-inch plug in a hole just to the driver side of the water neck on an older Edelbrock manifold.
Did not have a thermostat when I got it. Put in a 160-deg thermostat. Did not drill it.
At start up consistently goes to 190, then drops back to 160 when the stat opens. (On a warm to hot day it can creep back up to 190 ..in traffic. But o.k. for how I drive it …no parades).
Would a by-pass hose between the two half-inch holes make any kind of difference? Drill the thermostat? Run without one? Leave as-is? (I say 1/2 inch on the holes ..just guessing, probably bigger)
