The advantage that I see in this diagram is perhaps to facilitate the filling of the system....... when there is no cabin heating system which creates a path between the exit of the block, thermostat closed, and pump suction.
But at the risk of appearing pretentious towards a Caroll Shelby chief engineer, the simple old engineer that I am persists in saying that the simpler scheme with only two tanks works very well.
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