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This Tstat, yay or nay? Crap or gold? Good or scam

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Old 06-03-2011, 10:10 PM
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Pretty much is this worth buying for $8 extra or shouldn't I?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...#ht_1154wt_941

worth the extra 8 bucks for this "fail safe" stat apparently?
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"fail safe " actually a good thermostat, you can get them from autozone with lower price.
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Go to Autozone and special order a 160* T stat, note the manufacturer when you get is going to be, "Motorad." It is the exact same T-stat Hypertech sells for the LT1s. I would even venture to guess that is who makes that one as well.
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Yub motorad the one that made fail safe also, but again if you going with 160 stat, on winter you might have problem warming the car up. I alway swap out back to stock for winter and 160 for summer.
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I put a fail safe in my blazer, it's not a LT1 but it has been working for a couple of years so far.
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about this, I just picked up a 160 tstat from autozone (in stock) for 17.99 and guess what? it has a nice big old Motorad stamp on it.

So final answer - scam



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