Probably something added by Vince. My tuner has it full on at anything above 100degC. Up to that its a gradient. I prefer it that way but then again I live in Texas

my car has yet to go over 180 degrees since adding the oil cooler, that is except for when it was on the dyno

That's exactly why I wanted the GReddy thermostat plate. Cold oil is just as bad if not worse than hot.

yea i drove it today. seems impossible to get the oil or the coolant over 180 degrees lol. i picked up a thermostat for the oil so that should help, but seems the coolant stays very cool as well. just noticed the fans running a lot, was just seeing if everyone else had the same thing going on.

It's a nice function if you are at the track. Park the car and crank the ac on high. That'll trigger full fan too and cool the car off quicker.

Vince does this on every Z he tunes to my knowledge, mine were set there na, you now have an huge intercooler and an oil cooler blocking your rad, you want those fans pulling the air through, and these cars ar know for extreme engine temps...I say not overkill IMO! I almost hit 200 on oil after doing a couple runs while tweaking the boost controller, still that is impressive to me, once I have some better motoring(wishing I added water temp now, I may in the future) to see how my stock rad is keeping up. As for the pump, once the car is running I am almost accustomed to it, I have to listen for it now.

I also noticed substantially higher temps after I got tuned and turned up the boost. On WG I could barely get it to 90degC. Now that I'm running close to 10lbs I see 105degC when romping on it. I am in Houston though so its naturally hotter.

I came from supra's where guys run E85 all the time. A shop posted pics of injectors that were one years old and how bad they looked. They recommended getting them cleaned yearly. It might be over kill but when you're tuned on the raged edge or making over 1000whp, what's a couple hundred bucks a year for piece of mind.

R.K.

As much as E85 can be a pain in the ***, its benefits outweigh its negatives. All this cooling discussion has me thinking of its latent heat of vaporization properties. It literally pulls 3x the amount of heat out of the cylinder and runs your block temps cooler.

So I snapped a t-bolt while doing routine checks. I prefer the t-bolt clamps that have the round shank instead of the square like came with the kit. I also had to cut a few to clearance rubbing points which makes them one time use. Short story long I'm going to replace them the next time I do complete maintenance. Can anyone confirm my counts?

6 - 2.75"
12 - 2.5"
1 - 3"
1 - 2"

I broke one to. They don't take much to break. They I found out they don't need to be kryptynite (spelling?) tight.

The thing about mine was I wasn't really applying that much torque. Thankfully I had a spare 2.5" t-bolt that I stole from my G3 intake. Guess I'll have to replace it before I install it on the buyers car.

vibrant makes them. Have used them many times, very good clamps. I broke a couple as well, sasha replaced them free of charge. if they break next time i loosen or tighten them, i will go with vibrant clamps.

If these are breaking, you guys are over tightening them. They really don't need to be very tight, as all the pipes are bead rolled. I have installed at least a hundred of these clamp and never had one let go, or even hint at failure. This includes some cars that are pushing 30+psi. Never an issue.

Hit 215 degrees on the oil today. This is with 75-80 degree weather. First time seeing 215 with the kit.

I don't even think I hit that on the dyno and I live in Houston

Well those muther ******* bad luck trolls are still clinging to me.


Want to know what happens when a boost controller goes bad on a dyno?


You get 19.5 lbs of boost and 680 torque to the wheels at 4000 rpm. :ugh2:

Good news is my engine is still in one piece!

So after I ripped that out we made 465whp and 430tq on 9lb wastegate springs. Probably going to be putting the 11lb springs in this weekend then going back to break 500.

Damn I think you just made the record for highest power from a stock block. LOL

Hahaha... The spool on that turbo is SCARY at those levels. It sounded like it was going to suck the intake filter straight through it. Ill throw up the graph here in a bit. I had them print it out..lol.

can't wait. I really think you should hold the record for highest HP on stock block. Unless someone has the cajones to push the limits.

Ouch, lucky you are...makes me want to get my failsafe gauge setup with an external relay to the solenoid...what kind of controller?

My car did a similar thing when one of the lines going to the wastegate came off. It sounded very very angry and filled the shop with black smoke. I thought for sure it was a goner.

I really think these engines can hold alot more than guys are pushing (given you got a good fuel running through them). The few blow ups on here have usually be attributed to other things (over revving, low fuel pressure ect).

He's on pump gas I believe and yes that is the highest by far. I had 500 tq at 12 lbs. Wow 630!

You mean 680.

I have checked my lines several times because of how close they are to the exhaust, so far so good, that silicone is pretty tough. I thought about getting small clamps to go on all the connections...might do that after Carlisle next week. I hate that exhaust wrap stuff but I might do the manifold just to be safe...

You can never do enough heat management. I wrapped the pipe and wrapped all vacuum lines in thermo-tec

Wow talk about glory dyno pull glad the the motor is still in one piece that is a hell of a lot of boost for a stock motor.

What was the WHP number at that boost level. ?

Geez scary, but cool that it survived and you have a bad *** dyno graph to show off lol

Haha that's deadly

I figured you had a faulty mbc from our conversation. Did you do a compression test?

Nope E85. Presumably. A guy there with a gtr has an ethanol content analyzer and the highest he has found around Denver is 68%. We actually picked up slight knock at 17 degrees timing at 475hp and 5k rev.

But the stupid thing is we didnt see any at 19.7 lbs of boost. Crazy.

No compression test done. It sounded so smooth after the new injectors I wasn't worried.

Here it is. This is on a mustang and ive always used dj numbers as a standard. So 570 X .15 = 655. Sorry. Not 680 but there were lots of numbers going around today.

Dude that picture is horrible...makes me think I have glaucoma

Lol. Just seen that. Edited with a 1280 pic. Still not perfect but now you can zoom in and see #,s

What is the x axis? All mu dynos are on a mustang and the x axis is always rpm

Ummm. What?

Just look at the colors. :-)

Purty colors! That **** be dope

Ah. I see what your getting at. Sorry.. been a long day/night. I dont know why we printed time instead. Pretty sure it was peaked around 4xxx.

Here is my street tune dyno off the black wg springs. ( in rpm)