But don't forget the system is pressurized to more than one atmosphere, and with ethelene glycol added, it allows even more heat absorbtion and transfer before there's a "steam incident" in your cooling system.
As long as a heat exchanger is not at a point of steam blanketing, it will keep doing whatever it is doing, and once again, as long as there is a delta T between the cooling medium and the coolant. Increasing air flow across the radiator (think of that big fan in front of car on the dyno) will help with Q dot of the cooling medium of the radiator, and thus helping keep the engine cooler. If too much heat is added with not enough removed, an imbalance occurs and you end up with the coolant finding a way outside the system. Which causes even more problems and the sh*t piles up quick.
Yeah, there's a lot of splitting hairs in a coolant system. But everything CAN be measured if you so desired to measure it. The mathematics is what got it off the design table and into the casting foundries to make the parts. Most of the math was done for you by the design engineers so you don't have to. They can forget more than you know about coolant system design. So when you start ripping out factory parts and installing the wrong size of that, or fiddling with pulley sizes, etc., don't be super-shocked when sh*t don't work right because you didn't bother to do any math.
The thermostat is the acual part that increases the warm-up speed to operating temperature, technically. Without it, you'll still get to normal operating temperature. Just will take longer. I've always believed that if it weren't for the bean counters, the price of cars may have been a bit more, but they'd have more reliability built-in. But that's another story.
As long as a heat exchanger is not at a point of steam blanketing, it will keep doing whatever it is doing, and once again, as long as there is a delta T between the cooling medium and the coolant. Increasing air flow across the radiator (think of that big fan in front of car on the dyno) will help with Q dot of the cooling medium of the radiator, and thus helping keep the engine cooler. If too much heat is added with not enough removed, an imbalance occurs and you end up with the coolant finding a way outside the system. Which causes even more problems and the sh*t piles up quick.
Yeah, there's a lot of splitting hairs in a coolant system. But everything CAN be measured if you so desired to measure it. The mathematics is what got it off the design table and into the casting foundries to make the parts. Most of the math was done for you by the design engineers so you don't have to. They can forget more than you know about coolant system design. So when you start ripping out factory parts and installing the wrong size of that, or fiddling with pulley sizes, etc., don't be super-shocked when sh*t don't work right because you didn't bother to do any math.
The thermostat is the acual part that increases the warm-up speed to operating temperature, technically. Without it, you'll still get to normal operating temperature. Just will take longer. I've always believed that if it weren't for the bean counters, the price of cars may have been a bit more, but they'd have more reliability built-in. But that's another story.
