My Winter Upgrades

[Halon]

Looking good in da neighbor hood.

Also your pushing coolant out the overflow, if not its just me.

Now I have 2 issues dude. For the last couple years, I have NOT been pushing coolant, just running hot, and I'm pretty sure it was a lack of airflow to the radiator.

Now this year, I think I have an issue with the new head I put on, because I am ALSO pushing coolant. I've never had that issue until this year. Don't get the two issues confused.

So this is to help issue #1. Issue #2 is why I have the L19's, and will attempt to take car of that issue next time I have a free weekend, and it's a rainy boring weekend.

[Halon]

I just switched my thermostat in the red talon to a 180 degree and drilled 3 small holes in it. That made a HUGE difference with my car getting hot.

Thanks for the tips. But if you search for my thread on here called Drilling Thermostat, you'll see I've been battling this for a couple years now, and the MANY things I've tried. I'm currently on a 160* thermostat, with 2 holes drilled in it. If you've seen my car, you'll notice I have a hood vent. I went to the extreme of cutting a deng hole in my hood because I started running out of ideas.

Quick run down of things I've tried
- a million different mixtures of coolant, water, dish soap, water wetter.
- 160 thermostat, drilled
- higher pressure rad cap
- burping system a million times.
- air scoop under the car
- aluminum radiator
- fans always on
- hood vent
- ceramic coating manifold and turbine housing
- heat wrapping manifold and turbine housing
- pressure tested the cooling system 2 times to verify no leaks
- researched and bought the best design water pump


Well considering I still have my A/C condensor, and I've started to realise that I started having these issues as soon as I got that VPE FMIC, I have good reason to believe it is simply blocking too much air for me since I still have a AV condensor. So this is just one more thing I'm trying in my never ending quest to fix this issue. And I think this will fix it.

Also, I have the ETS FMIC mounted and everything back together.! But ghetto style :( had to use a bunch of zip ties because they place their mounting ears in a spot that isn't too friendly if you have the pop-ups, and still have AC. I'm going to see what they recommend. If I get no where with them, I'll have to just come up with something on my own.

[turbotalon1g]

Now I have 2 issues dude. For the last couple years, I have NOT been pushing coolant, just running hot, and I'm pretty sure it was a lack of airflow to the radiator.

Now this year, I think I have an issue with the new head I put on, because I am ALSO pushing coolant. I've never had that issue until this year. Don't get the two issues confused.

So this is to help issue #1. Issue #2 is why I have the L19's, and will attempt to take car of that issue next time I have a free weekend, and it's a rainy boring weekend.

I just recognized the puddle, because my car is pushing now.
well at least you still have a chance of fixing it.

[Halon]

Damn you're pushing coolant now too? Somabitch...

[asshanson]

You're still having overheating issues? I didn't think there were issues on the cruise. I thought it was because the fans were on in reverse.

[Halon]

The car ran fine on the cruise. But it was also what like 55 out or something? And I had my heater on. If I had my heater off, the car would have started to get a bit hotter for sure.

The real problem comes on those days it's 85 - 90 out. Nothing like driving home in that weather, with the heater on blast. Those days are the reason I left my A/C in the car, but I can't even use it because the car will overheat.

And I did find one of my fans had the fins on backwards. That seemed to help slightly, but still didn't fix the issue completely in the end.

[scheides]

New FMIC looks good brandon!

[4g63tcrazy]

Damn.. You've tried just about everything! That's really wierd it's still giving you problems.

[turbotalon1g]

Pull AC if you don't use it. I'll take it. lol
4 guests on here, making power must make u cool

[TheBlizzard]

Kind of a silly question but are sure the sensor isn't bad or something telling you it's hotter than it really is? Or have you tested that? Seems funny that it would run hot like that, even with an FMIC, if you have 2 fans it should be fine. Something just doesn't seem right.

Fuck just switch to straight meth, problem solved.