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Re: [GMCnet] Pushing against the wind [message #269526 is a reply to message #269516] Mon, 12 January 2015 19:31 Go to previous message
Ken Henderson is currently offline  Ken Henderson   United States
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Jerry,

I think you'll find, counter-intuitive as it may seem, that air cooled
engines generally run cooler oil temps than water cooled ones. Ken Burton
recently reported aircraft engine temps similar to those we see/saw on
Porsche's (The '57 356A I restored in '74 is long gone from my life.) :-(

Ken H.


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Work Jerry wrote:

> In the world of air/oil cooled Porsches, the mantra is 200 degrees oil
> temp on the gage is hot, 220 is really hot and 250 is too damned hot.
> Don't know if that applies to our coaches or not.
>
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