High Engine Temperature in Traffic - my solution.

[Bruce]

Dyno, sounds like a good thing to be doing. I did the usual 'keep a few revs up when sitting at the lights' etc thing, so the pump can circulate more water - certainly helps drop the temperature.

I often wondered how they did the water filling on the production line, afterall they only had like 90 seconds at the filling station to get the water in the engine and I assume it was filled with no trapped air?

Ohh speaking of such things - does anyone know how they do the brake fluid filling and brake bleading on the production line? Again, probably only 90 seconds to get this done. Anyone know what the procedure is they use or how they do it?

[WARP TEN]

I will certainly second getting Marc's chip. I had one in both my earlier '93 and my '95. Worked great to control temps. However, there is one thing you should not forget and perhaps check. The C4s are "bottom feeders", meaning they pull air for the radiator up from below the front nose of the car. As a result, they also pick up a lot of sand, dust, debris, leaves, etc. Overtime, the fins in the radiator become plugged. When I first had an overheating problem with the '93, with about 40k miles on it, I had the radiator pulled out and it about 40% clogged. (Marc said he once removed a radiator and got about 20 pounds of sane out of it) Hosed it out to clean all the fins. Then installed Marc's chip and it worked fine ever since. It is often difficult to really see if the radiator is clogged while installed (I know Marc has a way to view much of it) so it seemed best to just remove it when I ran into the problem. The '95 was low miles and was not clogged so I just had Marc install the chip. --bob

[USAF Retired]

Try cutting the Radiator Shroud to allow direct cold air flow entering the engine?

[BigJohn]

No No No!
Let's not start cutting up the car.

Fluid levels up to snuff, clean radiator and still over heating!