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Similar experience
thatguitarguy, I have a '90 Dodge Caravan in the fleet and I spent it's first several years in Colorado trying to keep it cool climbing the passes here. I added a higher performance electric fan, tried a cooler thermostat, went to a 2 row and finally a 3 row radiator. I drove slower while climbing and would occasionally turn the interior heat to high with the windows down to dump engine heat. Obviously no grill blocking on this vehicle.
However, on my VW Golf I have used upper grill blocks year round and some lower blocking for faster warm-ups in winter. I still need to open the lower blocks before climbing passes, even in sub-zero temps.
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Originally Posted by freebeard
The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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