Drilling thermostat

[carltalon]

^^ Ahh Very nice idea! I think I will try that with the scraps I got laying around. Any clearance issues carltalon?

I dont actually run one on my car. All my cooling problems are gone after switching to E-85 and installing Brandons old radiator.

Might be a long shot but are your fans blowing in the right direction? If they were blowing the wrong way they would still work fine at idle and slow cruse. But at high speed the fans and the incoming air flow would cancel each other out.

[Halon]

Ya I have checked this as well, the are pulling. I do have a small exhaust leak between the turbo and manifold. Bolts are tightened and gasket is installed, but something must not be flat. Could that exhaust escaping there be so hot to actually have an affect on anything? I'm really digging for anything here as I'm still pretty confused. I may just swap the headgasket even though no tests have shown it to be bad. But I'm just really digging and starting to run out of ideas.

[Swifty1638]

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get that hood?

-A. Swift

[JET]

I have the invader style hood on my car and it has a vent right over the exhaust manifold. I really didn't notice a difference with it. Are you still running E85? If so, there has to be something seriously wrong, I can't imagine what it would do on gas. The AC condensor does inhibit the air flow quite a bit, I got rid of my cooling problems with I ditched the AC.

[Halon]

I really don't want to ditch my A/C. I am going to be putting on a new headgasket. Going back to an OEM composite one. At the same time, I will be putting in a new water pump, and also replacing that o ring seal on the water pipe. This problem did start showing up right after that whole incident in the Menards parking lot. I'm wondering if it isn't as sealed as it should be, and we didn't see it on the pressure test because it's so tucked away.

I love how the invader hoods look on the 92's, but not so much on the 91's, so I will just be getting one of those vents from Carbon Trix.

[Halon]

I've also been reading on some other boards, and it seems I am far from alone when it comes to phantom running hot issues.. Tons of people are having cooling issues. I will just keep working at it until it's fixed. About all I can do.

[xveganxcowboyx]

Do you have any ducting at all? I seem to remember your fmic piping running just around the radiator. If so you probably have room to put a couple small scoops on either side of the fmic. I added some on mine just between the fmic and the fogs and it helped cruising temps quite a bit.

[Halon]

Ducting would be a bit difficult, as my FMIC is now the Victory one with the backdoor style endtanks. Really not much room for anything there anymore. But I may try adding a little baffle below, like what Carl had put a picture up of. I'm almost willing to try anything at this point! I even seen one guy on another forum with a 2nd small radiator in the fender well. I'm definately not the only one dealing with this crap.

[x-pride]

I think your problem is your AC condesor with your big radiator. It is stopping alot of air flow. Before you go through tearing your car apart. What about sticking a stock radiator back in. I was going to buy a big radiator but after reading a bit on the effects I went with a stock one again. I no longer have the AC condensor and only running one fan and I don't have an over heating problem. I am also running the same head gasket.

[dragonforce]

Make sure you don't have combustion leak into coolant passage. you might have a small leak.