I agree with everything you say. I just hate to put a piece of plastic, carboard in front of radiator on a $60K plus car. Guess I should have bought a cheaper car LOL!!! I live in Houston and tonight it was 70F, I could not imagine if it were 40F outside.
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Originally Posted by Bobcat
In my mind , the probable reason you aren`t getting up to temp. is that our radiators etc are all sized to handle max hp in a hot environment ... i.e , temps in the upper 90`s ... at least in SC , and you are not putting out any where near max hp and therefore heat when cruising ... and your ambient is a lot lower now . I`m also having the same problem now that it has cooled off here ( upper 60`s to low 70`s ) . I also have an aluminum engine , so its heat rejection/cooling ability is pretty high . Sounds like you have more heat rejection ability now than you have heat/BTU`s .
My solution is the same as yours ... block off part of the radiator . I also thought I had a thermostat problem , but really think that it is what I said above .
Bob
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