Out of the garage. It's good to be bad.

 

Beautiful! Excellent! Superb! Real Cool! Not Bad!

Enjoy!

 

Sunday my car comes out of storage and is insured so I’m excited too.

 

its gonna snow in MI Sunday

 

Saturday and Sunday here will be in the 80s. Me, I have a coolant leak and a garage that STILL isn't even close to being built.

 

well then I don’t get to drive it but it’s insured and I’ll start it up for the year.

 

Come on get this done so you can have some fun.

 

It felt so good to have it out yesterday in Halifax.

 

Maybe I will suck it up and get my Euro Mechanic to do it. Sucks though, because I wanted to do all the other stuff... change snout coupler, SC water pump, maybe use Braided Stainless and AN for as much as I could, and swap over to EVANS Coolant.

 

Man...I feel for you guys in cold regions. I got sprinkled on driving home across Alligator alley last night, so I can relate

 

Nope. Not coming out of storage this week. Next week looks the same.

 

What's that, and what's the advantage?

 

Evans does not expand when hot, therefore it runs at zero pressure when at temperature. It also doesn't boil until much hotter than conventional coolant. Supposedly it also has the same heat transfer ability as standard coolant.
Plus, it's legal for most drag strips that forbid coolant.
Mostly for me in the XKR, it's for lowered pressure cuz leaky hoses and such.
For my Mustang, it's for Drag Strip Regulations.

 

Week of April 17-25...... Still no top-down motoring!

 

Mine stays in the barn until the temps stay above 60, top goes down the day I take it out, and work very hard to keep it down until I put it away again in late Oct.
Should be another couple of weeks here in Northern MI. right now it's 28 and snowing.
Besides, I just took delivery on a new Lincoln Aviator, so right now that's my fun car.

 

Mine is also back on the road!:-)

 

imho, cars are meant to be driven… with the right tires for the conditions, have at it. The balance in these cars is nothing less than exceptional and it shows in all weather and road conditions.

I may have pulled the trigger too early and put the new summers’ on (taking the all seasons off). With morning temperatures around 5C, it just means a more involved warm up strategy

Happy Easter Everybody!

 

How hard is it to swap over? I've been thinking of doing in this in my XJ which has the AJ133 SC, merely for relieving pressure on the coolant system.

 

Not HARD at all, other than getting to the thermostat twice. It's kind of expensive, but also good for 200,000+ miles as long as it stays clean. The system has to be evacuated, run a Prep Fluid through it to remove any residual water/coolant, then purged again and then filled with the Evans Coolant. Probably about $200 all-in, plus time and effort.
Zero system pressure (nominally) is a huge benefit, especially in cars with plastic pipes and I'd say quite worth the effort.

 

Interesting, I think I'm going to do that this summer. Capacity is 10L it looks like for the 5.0, so you'd need 3 bottles of the Evans. Do you need 3 bottles of the prep fluid too? Also since you said getting to the thermostat, I assume you used low pressure air to push out all the old coolant as well?