Can an AC Installed make the engine run hotter than before?

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Originally Posted by brown7373

But that begs the question...do you or I know more than the engineers who designed these vehicles? I doubt it. We are driving vehicles 30, 40 50 years old or more. Properly maintained, they still operate as they were designed many years ago.

Can't argue with that logic, except for these observations: 1) improvements have been made in the past few decades and 2) he's running a 462 BBC, not a stock engine.