brought my car to a open track even for some driving (ThunderHill) today and I found out the marginal cooling system is worse than I thought, about 15 minutes into a run it was time to get off because it was HOT.... This car has always made heat (no power though ), seems to get hot fast and even though it has a chip and it's set so the high speed fan is on at 170ish degrees it still runs anywhere from 180-200 or more depending on conditions.
To add injury to insult even when I was driving home it was acting like a turd, it was waving around 1/3 to 1/2 way on the gauge just on freeway driving with no A/C on. And after I got on the backroads if there was a small hill to climb even cruising at like 55 it would get up to the "A" if the hill was long enough. It wasn't even that hot out today, maybe in the upper 80s.
The car is mostly stock, but it has that chip and underdrive pulleys. The water pump is new, the T-stat is new and a 180*. The only things it could be is the underdrives, the radiator (which looks newish and clean inside) or something with the motor. The underdrives do underdrive the water pump a good amount but I thought alot of people are running them with no problems .
I have a bone stock 94 as well and that one runs cool as hell, the fan isn't even on most of the time...
To add injury to insult even when I was driving home it was acting like a turd, it was waving around 1/3 to 1/2 way on the gauge just on freeway driving with no A/C on. And after I got on the backroads if there was a small hill to climb even cruising at like 55 it would get up to the "A" if the hill was long enough. It wasn't even that hot out today, maybe in the upper 80s.
The car is mostly stock, but it has that chip and underdrive pulleys. The water pump is new, the T-stat is new and a 180*. The only things it could be is the underdrives, the radiator (which looks newish and clean inside) or something with the motor. The underdrives do underdrive the water pump a good amount but I thought alot of people are running them with no problems .
I have a bone stock 94 as well and that one runs cool as hell, the fan isn't even on most of the time...