Wilsons Sandbox

Erik, that 100/0 ethlyene glycol and water mixture definitely hurts you. I see a solid 10 degrees plus when going from 50/50 EG/water to 10/90 EG and distilled water... I'd expect another 10 degrees if I had gone the other way (100/0) like you did. IE - there's 20 degrees in it for you if you run 90% distilled water and 10% Zerex Super racing coolant (Valvoline part number VV858, available at NAPA) instead of pure coolant. Bill Watson Phoenix erik wrote:

> Also, I think I may try the UFO fender you describe here. I live in Los > Angeles, and it was 100+ degrees this weekend. Ouch.

Yeah, the heat's been real fun. I took a friend on the back of the bike to see Radiohead at the Greek on friday and had some heat related issues. After getting past all the places where I could lane split/filter, I was just slowly poking along in line. Temp gauge was up near the top already, and after a few blocks of stop & stop, it started to idle really low and die when I let off the throttle. Luckily we were only a block or so away from the bike lot, so she hopped off and walked while I limped the rest of the way. After the show and the heat were over, it ran fine. I just got done flushing and refilling the coolant since it was due anyway, and friday evenings adventure told me I should just go ahead and do it. I also had cluelessly refilled it at some point with 100% antifreeze, so I know it wasn't cooling as well as it should've been. It's a much happer 50/50 mix now instead of somewhere inbetween 50/50 and 100/0 - I hope it handles the heat better. erik --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs.Try it free. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]