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Aside from the cold starts/no choke thing. It's been running great. I know Lynn runs his FIA car on the track, mostly, & in pretty warm weather. I saw it a few times up at the Local meet, when I lived in CA. Modeled a lot of my underhood stuff off that car. I guess I've run the car here & there, also. We sit at about the same elevation. I've never run the car w/o a thermostat. The big difference is the weather. It may touch freezing a couple times a year, there. & only for a few night hours. Them it warms up. They rarely ever see rain. So, I don't know how she will fare on a cold day, here, w/o that valve in the line. With my radiator, it would likely never warm up. So really, the big difference for me is that cold starts are quite a bit more frequent. I don't have a problem getting her started. Sometimes she does resist, however.