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Old 02-02-2012, 10:11 AM   #37
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Originally Posted by MileHighBoxster View Post
With no evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that suggests that a quicker opening thermostat accomplishes anything - other than to get people who have a factory set up to purchase and install a cooler thermostat. As I've said above, I don't say cooler isn't possibly better but, in the absence of heat issues, there remains no compulsion to alter the factory set up to simply change out a thermostat.
Actually, there is substantial empirical (ranging from improved UoA’s, to even a pre and post install Dyno pull or two) to anecdotal (“improved fuel mileage”, “faster warm up in cold weather”) data available on this subject (ad nauseum), but that would require actually doing a search to understand why changing the thermostat is a positive, and in which models Porsche already uses them from the factory.

So, yes, these things actually work……………………..
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