{"id":356,"date":"2020-05-25T14:20:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T21:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/?p=356"},"modified":"2020-05-25T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T21:20:15","slug":"new-product-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/2020\/05\/25\/new-product-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW PRODUCT IDEA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing with the series of vignettes of the very original RHD BN2 that is currently being brought back to reliable driving condition, the recent removal of the radiator revealed a new one – one I’d never seen before.\u00a0 The long-term (57 years) previous owner installed “screen door” screen in front of the radiator, apparently to keep bugs and debris from damaging and clogging the radiator:<\/h2>\n

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And here’s a close-up:<\/h2>\n

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I can’t comment on its effect on delivery of air to the radiator – did it reduce it? – but in static running the engine with only the original fan, it never came close to running hot, much less overheating.<\/h2>\n

The overall effect seems to have been quite good as the original radiator is in excellent condition.\u00a0 So there’s an old new one, or a new old one, to put on your list of projects for next winter.\u00a0 Or maybe I should market the ACME Radiator Screen, guaranteed to debug your Healey’s radiator!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing with the series of vignettes of the very original RHD BN2 that is currently being brought back to reliable driving condition, the recent removal of the radiator revealed a new one – one I’d never seen before.\u00a0 The long-term … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}