I don't post here very often, but I'd like to suggest you not remove the thermostat. It may make your engine run hotter. Why? Because removing the restriction in the water flow may result in the coolant passing through the radiator too quickly to cool. Those sort of things are engineered and it's best to keep them as designed. Been there, done that with a race car we ran a few years back. It kept running hot so the owner said to take out the thermostat and it made it even worse. We ended up cutting out the center of a thermostat to allow more flow, but still have a restriction and it fixed the problem. I wouldn't have even agreed to that except it was a race car and all the engineering had long since gone out the window. For that matter, the windows had gone out the window too!! Truth is, we just didn't have a big enough radiator for what we were doing.
Of course, the car owner didn't know we'd done that, he was very adamant that he was right about pulling the thermostat completely out. We gave up the race cars a long time ago and he's still my best friend... don't have the heart to tell him he was wrong.
