ET difference w/ less oil

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by rayfin

I thought Grumpy Jenkins always said a hot engine builds more HP?

They were cooling his Pro Stock stuff down a couple of years ago just like everybody else. When that book came out everybody I know that tried it slowed down. He said he had a switch on his shifter that turned the water pump on in 2nd gear. We all went back to cooling them down. The all aluminium engines don't seem to care, and many actually like to run above 180 F. The LS1 is a great bracket engine because it makes the same power between 180 and about 210. I cool mine with a seperate battery to run the water pump and fans. Like Jeff mentioned, we often take it to the staging lanes to cool down for heads-up races.