Another day another test
Nice clean rad
Upper hose shortened and filter added
1.5" spacer on the fan
New water pump, with a gasket, none of that RTV stuff
Flushed as much out of the engine as possible
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Today's temp
30, 35 with humidity (maybe 90f)
2 mins after starting
133 top hose into rad
138 hose out of neck
112 bottom hose out of rad
12 mins
Gauge still not 180
170
200
153
22 mins
Gauge 190
178
199
167
#1 header 800
Turn it off and do a 10 min cooldown with e-fans running, gonna get the numbers anyway just for the heck of it
Gauge 170
170
166
95
#1 header 141
at this point I would think/hope that while moving I will likely only see temps around 200, none of that 230 to 240 stuff when I brought it home
I'll see if I can take it out later