What type of fan are you guys running?
Are you guys using stock radiators?
What type of thermostats are you running?
what type of coolant?
are you guys using water wetter?
thanks for the help
Stock cooling system with Dex-Cool, I am using Water Wetter. I also have the phenolic manifold to head spacer as well as blower to manifold spacer. Zero problems with temperature.
Stock fan, Stock coolant, stock radiator, stock thermostat, stock water pump.
Stock everything....no problems.
stock fan with new settings to come on sooner and stay on after the car has shut down for about 45 seconds.
stock radiator
stock water pump
stant "superstat" 180* thermostat
prestone green coolant
It's nice to be injected but love being blown.
Stock, with some part store replacement thermostat...my original one broke.
Never had an issue with this including hot lapping the car 5-6 times in a row at the drag strip in hot mid-summer weather.
Stock everything here with some red line water wetter. Zero cooling problems even in traffic.
"In Oldskool we trust"
Stock everything here too.
Stock everything.
I have changed the fan settings.
FU Tuning
Stock everything cooling wise. Only thing I've done is replace my radiator fan motor when it failed a few months back. Never even flushed the radiator or had temp issues other than when the fan stopped working.
I do run water wetter and distilled water in my heat exchanger set up, but thats not part of the same system..I think at one point I did add a bottle of water wetter to my radiator though just for fun...
04 Cav. 2dr. 5spd. My DD. 'Nuff said.
thanks again for the input
Is every one here is intercooled?
Mostly. I am personally and absolutely urge you to do the same. Best improvement I've ever made.
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"In Oldskool we trust"
Best thing to date ive done to my car since its been supercharged.
Currently running a Griffin universal aluminum radiator with a universal fan from frozenboost.com..only switched since it made it simpler to switch to an overflow system and ditch the pressurized surge bottle. Ran a bone stock cooling system last year with the m62 setup, no issues at all. Dex-cool in both setups.
Definitely intercool, best supporting mod you can do. As for my heat exchanger system, I too run distilled water and water wetter when weather permits. I only run coolant in winter.
carnivorous mouse wrote:thanks again for the input Is every one here is intercooled?
I am. Dualpass and ZZP S3.
ya know... ive often wondered.... if i say put a manual radiator in my car and did a completely external tranny cooler if either A.) the tranny temps would go down or b.) the radiator temps would go down.
ive honestly never noticed a difference in engine temp between auto and manual, my 5 speed car would climb above 200 in the staging lanes on a hot night but i never got to mess with the fan settings on it. my auto stays around 195 basically all the time. the fan settings definitely helped that though because it loved to run around 200-210 all the time before i changed the fan settings. so im wondering if maybe the trans fluid heats it up or vice versa.
thoughts?
It's nice to be injected but I love being blown.
im not boosted yet but i plan to run my Griffon radiator and a external trans cooler for my auto......aftermarket fan as well
going turbo
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-Z Yaaaa- wrote:ya know... ive often wondered.... if i say put a manual radiator in my car and did a completely external tranny cooler if either A.) the tranny temps would go down or b.) the radiator temps would go down.
ive honestly never noticed a difference in engine temp between auto and manual, my 5 speed car would climb above 200 in the staging lanes on a hot night but i never got to mess with the fan settings on it. my auto stays around 195 basically all the time. the fan settings definitely helped that though because it loved to run around 200-210 all the time before i changed the fan settings. so im wondering if maybe the trans fluid heats it up or vice versa.
thoughts?
interesting thought.
My car pretty much runs around 188-195. If sit running idle long enough they will go up.
I have my fan to come on at 212 and off at 200.
I forgot earlier to say I have water wetter in the system also.
FU Tuning
what the hell is water wetter?
It's nice to be injected but I love being blown.
-Z Yaaaa- wrote:what the hell is water wetter?
It's a coolant additive that reduces hydrogen bonding, aka surface tension, giving the water molecules more surface area, allowing it to absorb more heat and cool better.
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