Quote Originally Posted by bluehaze View Post
Ever take the thermostat out of your engine? We used to take them out back in my race car days thinking it would lower temps, However it actually raised temps. They make restrictor plates to replace the thermostat with so you can "tune" the amount of water flowing through the engine because just removing the thermostat in many cases would cause the engines to overheat.
It may be different with race engines but I can tell you with non race engines that on 2 separate occasions I have had the opportunity to run a car with no thermostat and in both situations the car failed to ever get to operating temperature.