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Old 11-27-2011, 03:16 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by meelis11 View Post
Of course it woulld be better to stop that extra heating after warmup but it is not taht simple as solenoid valve - I would not want standing still coolant wrapped around exhaust - probably it starts to boil and make bad things.

Meelis
Excellent point. I hadn't thought of that.

One soulution would be to just leave it open all the time, but that would add more cooling load onto the radiator. Of course, especially when it's cold I don't need anywhere near as much radiator as I have.

I guess another option would be spliting the exhasut pipe (one leg normal, one leg with the heat echanger) and putting a bypass valve in, but then we're getting more complicated than I'd like.
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