Originally Posted by wstar Surely 130 is a typo? yes 230 would be the correction thanks
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06-03-2013, 03:09 PM | #92 (permalink) |
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Water temps of 255 are way too high. Oil temps of 230 are fantastic. It sounds like too much stuff are blocking your radiator and since you can't do anything about that you need to upgrade it.
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Water temps over 220 are alarming. Ideally you wouldn't go much over 200 at all. I prefer to stay UNDER 200, myself, 'swhy I bought a big *** radiator. Are you on stock radiator? If so..that's your issue. |
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At our last event in 90 degree temps I saw 232 degree water and 260 degree oil and I have the wide Series 9 Setrab (same cooling BTU as typical Setrab 34 row). I will get a better radiator soon and need to direct flow better to my oil cooler.
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The track is a 12 turn track and only 2 straight areas for passing. Car worked excellent in the morning but some harder driving on course sent alarms going. I guess time to look at a upgraded radiator thanks
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Yeah 266 is too hot. 280 and 300 are the two cutoff points in the ECU for limp mode to protect the engine. At 280F you get rev-limited to something like 5k rpm, and at 300 it's going to cut you way down lower than that on revs. I've done a number of track days with my oil in the 240-260-ish range. It's doable, it's just hotter than you want to be, and you really need to change that oil afterwards. Keeping it down to 220 is much better, and is about as low as you can reasonably shoot for tracking this car in a hot climate.
Dropping those oil and water temps gives you a little edge on power too, because you're not heating up your intake air/fuel as much on the way in with a cooler engine bay in general. |
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The car's ideal water temp is right around the boiling point of 210F, the electric fan doesn't even kick on until 213F. Anything under 230F is fine, unfortunately it's pretty easy to get the water temp to 250F on track on a hot day with the stock radiator. Once you see it marching up just back off for a lap and the temp will come down fairly quickly. Big ass radiator is next on my list.
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I'm not saying 210 isn't fine, but I personally saw my car pull 2-3 degrees the second the coolant ticked over 190. |
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Yeah this is with UpRev.
It has a much more ... mmmm ... adaptable, we'll say, timing program than previous cars. The car seems to have a very high resolution and high sensitivity knock detection system and will add timing if it sees favorable conditions for it (ie, coolant above warm up level so it's on main tables, but below a threshold, in this case, 190deg F. It will also add timing if you add Torco accelerator or run a higher octane fuel (within reason). At least that has been my experience. Last edited by Sh0velMan; 06-03-2013 at 11:32 PM. |
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