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Originally posted by Derno24
Hey guys so as not to get too carried away lets clarify a few things. For normal riding/racing Cannondale27 is right the cap on the raditor bottle is definitely a weak point. Rookie had this problem as well as I. Once I changed caps mine never came back. Now for why these ideas are good. This is useful information if you plan on running your machine in a 6hr race or 12 hr. Reason is this. Every machine at the GA race had cooling issues and they all had stock radiators. So it just isn't our machines. Alot of teams were pulling in to clean their radiators or add coolant.
All of these ideas are great, but I think a simple aftermarket set-up (double row radiator) will solve most of mine and Doug's problems. Trick will be finding a good radiator then making it fit our application for these races. I will continue using my stock set-up for normal harescrambles and my practice machine.
Just trying to clarify before someone comes out with the idea of strapping a bottle of liquid nitrogen to the quad and running lines by the radiator to cool it off in a hurry.
Just messing!
doubt a bigger rad will solve anything if it's all packed with mud. keeping the mud off the rad is priority i'd think. anybody having overheating issues when the rad is clean? what temp do these machines usually run at? does everyone agree that the earlier cases run cooler than the SSM?