Tim Birkin's Full Throttle — book review
We all have a copy of Full Throttle, don’t we? A core book of any motoring library, written by a dashing hero of the track. Have we all read it…
My own preference is for waste to be disposed of, as far as is practicable, as soon as it becomes available ; an engine that warms up quickly but never overheats. This requires either blower air-cooling, which is admittedly not easy to achieve quietly and without power loss, or a large radiator with fan and really capable thermostat. I have yet to encounter a standard thermostat that is large enough to cope, as it should, with unlimited cooling capacity, but it is quite easy to arrange. Fan power-loss at really high revs. could be avoided by a centrifugal deelutcher cutting-out the fan at, say, 4,000 r.p.m.
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