Can't find solution for lack of performance when car at OPERATING TEMP.

JARblue · 03-12-2021, 12:44 PM

My Z was a daily driver in Texas summer heat for 6 years. In stock form, I routinely hit 240F+ temps and the occasional 250+ temp literally while just using cruise control at 70-80 mph driving across the state. If I came to a light, it would heatsoak and pull timing like a mofo. Never found it to be a problem on the street tho - still had plenty of power for a reasonable acceleration pace to get back up to speed.

On the track it was even worse. In stock form, the car was basically done after 1 warm up lap and 1 full speed lap at Circuit of the Americas. The following lap on the back straight I was up in the 280F range and it was limiting RPMs to 5000K at which point I slowed down to pit.

Now that it's no longer my DD, I have installed the necessary mods to address all of those cooling issues.

03-12-2021, 12:44 PM	#9 (permalink)
JARblue A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Austin, TX Age: 45 Posts: 36,450 Drives: 11 Z34, 98 E36 M3 Rep Power: 2684442	My Z was a daily driver in Texas summer heat for 6 years. In stock form, I routinely hit 240F+ temps and the occasional 250+ temp literally while just using cruise control at 70-80 mph driving across the state. If I came to a light, it would heatsoak and pull timing like a mofo. Never found it to be a problem on the street tho - still had plenty of power for a reasonable acceleration pace to get back up to speed. On the track it was even worse. In stock form, the car was basically done after 1 warm up lap and 1 full speed lap at Circuit of the Americas. The following lap on the back straight I was up in the 280F range and it was limiting RPMs to 5000K at which point I slowed down to pit. Now that it's no longer my DD, I have installed the necessary mods to address all of those cooling issues. sportsman2003 likes this. __________________ 2011 370Z 6MT Sport Gun Metallic \| ARC \| CJM \| Ecutek \| FI \| Fujimura \| R2C \| SPL \| Stillen \| TWM \| Z1 \| ZSpeed \|

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