[VB] Hot engine

[sglw]

When I had my 63 single cab repainted the guy had some newspaper taped to the inside of the vents. One of the marskings got into the fan inlet. Driving from cold it seemed OK,. I have an oil temp gauge so it took a while to go up. When I firnally found the painted newspaper, everything went fine. Did you check the shroud reach around the engine and have a feel.


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-------- Original message --------From: Chris Dreike <cdreike at gmail.com> Date: 9/26/19  10:14 PM  (GMT-08:00) To: VW type 2 late aircooled <type2 at type2.com>, "<vintagebus at type2.com>" <vintagebus at type2.com> Subject: Re: [VB] Hot engine 
Thanks Sam.
I too have a porsche pulley and the 3.88 r&p and the welded balanced fan.

Chris

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 8:46 PM sglw <sglw at aol.com> wrote:

> I have a 1600 dp with typ 3 twin carbs and would overheat when driving in
> 100 degree weather. My solution was to use an early porsche 356 generator
> pulley, that is 10% smaller. This is because I have a 3.88 ring and pinion
> and only do 3000 rpm at 60 mph, I did put in a balanced and welded fan as
> it goes faster.
>
> Check to see if your fan is clear.
> Best
> Sam w
>
>
>
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Chris Dreike <cdreike at gmail.com>
> Date: 9/26/19 7:16 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: VW type 2 late aircooled <type2 at type2.com>, "<vintagebus at type2.com>" <
> vintagebus at type2.com>
> Subject: Re: [VB] Hot engine
>
> In poking around on The Samba, I saw a reference to maybe the vents on a
> splitty are not large enough to support the dog house size fan.
>
> Also my compression measures at 1-4, 150, 155, 155, 160. The engine builder
> was targeting 8:1 compression. Not sure if 155 is close to that. Anyone?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 6:27 PM Sam Williams <sglw at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > I had a similar problem, and found some paper had been sucked into the
> > back of the fan.
> >
> > I had to keep under 50 to get the oil temp down to 250
> >
> > Sam,
> >
> > 63 single cab
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Dreike <cdreike at gmail.com>
> > To: VW type 2 late aircooled <type2 at type2.com>; <vintagebus at type2.com> <
> > vintagebus at type2.com>
> > Sent: Thu, Sep 26, 2019 3:56 pm
> > Subject: [VB] Hot engine
> >
> > Hi,
> > My previous post talked about having hot heads on my engine. I gets hot
> > just accelerating from a stop light to 50mph.
> >
> > The engine is a 1776cc. Scat cam (c25 grind similar to W-100) and Scat
> Pro
> > Street heads with stainless valve covers. Dog house style, wide, balanced
> > fan and dog house oil cooler.
> >
> > I am running both a air fuel ratio and a cylinder head temp gauge so I
> know
> > what the engine is doing.
> >
> > I have a megasquirt controlled fuel injection system so I have great
> > control over all the engine parameters. The engine is hot whether its
> > running rich or lean. 28 degrees max advance or 38 degrees when running
> > lean on a light load. Rich is 12.7:1 and lean is 17:1.
> >
> > I need to check to see that the fan belt is not slipping, I have a tach
> for
> > that. There does not seem to be anything caught in the fan that I could
> > feel (engine off).
> > The engine oil always ran hot in the past up to 260F until I recently
> > installed an external cooler in addition to the stock dog house and it
> now
> > run consistently at 210F in town or on the freeway. I also have a full
> flow
> > filter.
> >
> > I'll check compression before pulling the engine
> >
> > Anyone have other suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> > .
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