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Originally Posted by Dezoris
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.
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I've asked my tuner (Mike from moto-east) to lower it about 7-8 degrees so let's see if it helps.. I personally don't want to get CF hood and pay $700 for something that will be only beneficial at track days as you mentioned I also want to keep my car as DD and here in PNW we also see the temps go down below 50F quite often during the winter but being FI and running an OEM oil cooler heating up the engine shouldn't be a big deal