I've been reading up on various papers lately. I wanted to see if there was a good general strategy I haven't thought of to control the electric water pump. I stumbled across this:
http://www.clemson.edu/ces/crb/resea...ms/thermal.pdf
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Advanced thermal system technologies can provide 1-3% fuel economy improvements through lower parasitic losses, higher operating temperatures, reduced component temperature fluxuations, lowered emissions, and alternative engine block monitoring temperatures.
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So, that puts it into perspective what this mod will do for a FE increase. Of course, I'm running an alternator delete, so I should hopefully see the high end of that.