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Old 10th March 2015, 11:22 AM
flyerncle flyerncle is offline
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The car I built for Teamtrain used all the old Ginetta parts for the cooling system,basically a Zetec engine,header tank feed to bottom hose and top hose to thermostat housing and return pipe in top hose to header tank above water level and no cooling fan at the time,ran hot but no problems as Zetec engines do run warm.

I think its just the way you have it routed David that could be the problem,cant remember exactly the way a thermo syphon system works but the idea is that it cools the water (obviously) as it goes through the rad from top to bottom or vice versa if you get what I mean and wrong routing will cause you grief.
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