[freebeard]

elhigh -- Yup. The weekly driver has a stock 1600, except for a billet aluminum distributor full of Ford parts.

The engine I hold in reserve is a stroker 1776 with an aluminum case and big-valve heads, that was going to go into the van I sold. It has a Type IV cooler in the doghouse.

Others I have had had braided stainless hose run all over the engine compartment.

Cobb -- Water is corrosive and best kept away from machinery, while the lubricating film of oil is fundamental to things even working at all.

I'd like to see a VW or Porsche boxer that is dry-sumped and then carries the external oil tanks in large corrugated copper valve covers. The oil would return down the pushrod tubes. I think it would be quite effective.