70duster 360 gets hotter the faster i go
Sorry NOT TRUE. Stats can fail in several ways, stuck open, stuck closed, and NOT OPENING wide enough.
How is what I said not true...if your response was describing it failing? Those are two different discussions, the purpose of the Tstat and the ways it can fail? lmao:violent1:
The thermostat limits the lowest operating temp. The Thermostat begins to open at its rated temp., and fully opens 10-20 degrees after that. You either know how they (thermostat) work or you think you know. IF you put a 160 in and it runs the same as the 180..... that proves the point that it does nothing but allows the car to warm up to its end temp., quicker. Some cars will stay around 160, but most cars will still continue to raise after that. The cars that run near the thermostat temps are more than likely todays cars that are equipped with aluminum radiators, electric fans that pull 2500 plus cfm of air and high flow electric water pumps.
I have a 180 Tstat right now and I know that it will start to creep to 190-200 and stay in that range unless at a light and then it will creep to 210. IF I switched to a 160 and it still did this, that means there is no difference for me from the 180 and 160, besides a faster opening time and a slower creep to 200ish temps, with a chance that it may actually stay cooler.
Aslo there are plenty of people running no Tstat on the street. With Electric pumps and without electric pumps. We also live in Cali where there is no real winter here.
Efficient cooling cars will run near the temp of the Tstat, but ones that run hot, this is sort of a bandaid I believe I was told once to help hotter running cars.
