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Originally Posted by glamcem
Mike, I am a little confused about the fans activation temps I believe @ Dezoris mentioned one of this earlier posts that the fan activation temps are 212F and he lowered it to 200F to delay the heat rise of the coolant temps.. so I asked my tuner to lower it, am I missing something?  |
Default ECU tuning is 212F for fan activation. Some tuners automatically lower it in their tunes and dont advertise it.
As far as coolant temps, I have always had higher coolant temps even when the car was bone stock no mods. On the dyno saw up to 220F after a stock run, again bone stock. I dont know if some cars have more heat issues than others.
My car was always bouncing from 200F to 212F with the stock radiator in idle. Track was the same story. After the Koyo, same crap difference was recovery time was faster would go from 212F fan activation down to 195F and more slowly back up. After Vortech was always in the 205-212F during slow speed and idle. Track time it was 208F-215F.
With fan speed at 200F is always 192-200F and oil is 10F cooler on track.
I have always had in dash tablet gauges installed long time ago before anyone was doing it on this car. Always have monitored the cars oil and coolant temps before and after mods for this reason.
Point is you have to set a goal and target temps. i cant and wont start cutting holes in bumper, skid plate adding vented hoods because I need a car that can also get heat into it quickly when the temps go below 50F half the year. If you are in a dry hot climate go for it. But if you can keep coolant temps at 200-210F and oil temps below 250F no need to do anything on a street car.