Strokers run warmer???

moper said
Let's see if I can word it better...
How that manifests itself is the radiator has to transfer more heat from the collant to the air. The cooling system has to deal with more of a load... i.e. it "runs hotter". Sorry if that was understood as me re-writing physics.

The "weakest link" in the system is the ability of the radiator to transfer the heat to the air. Air is not as efficient medium of taking away heat as liquid.

This can be proven when your car starts to overheat, and you leave the car running at idle and then use a garden hose to spray your radiator. It cools right down. That is because water (liquids) have a greater capacity to carry away heat than air/gas (not gasoline - solid/liquid/gas).

If you burn your hand/finger, do you sit there and blow on it to cool down the burn? No, you go to the sink and run it under cold water because it works faster.

So the problem is not the ability of the coolant to take the heat away from the cylinder, but the ability of the radiator to dissipate the heat into the air - especially when it gets above 90° and you are idling with minimal air going through the radiator because you are not moving to get the "ram air" through it.