What Water Temps are you all getting?

[FoxBodyMustangs]

When driving I get no issues, but at idle it creeps up to over 200..

What is normal?

 

[rkuhn]

Mine never gets above 190 but my brother in law 86 GT stay's around 210 at idle. He put on an electric fan and it stayed the same. He's never had any issues though.

 

[FoxBodyMustangs]

Mine never gets above 190 but my brother in law 86 GT stay's around 210 at idle. He put on an electric fan and it stayed the same. He's never had any issues though.

Does he have cats on or off? I think my stock cats are causing my issues...

 

[87_notchfox]

my wifes goes to maybe 200-210 max with mechanical fan and all 4 cats. mine goes to maybe 190 with just 2 cats and electric fan. both with under drive pulleys

 

[rkuhn]

Does he have cats on or off? I think my stock cats are causing my issues...

He no cats and a prochamber I think? But I will ask to be sure.

 

[rkuhn]

He said he has no cats and under drive pulleys

 

[89stang1]

mine rarely goes over 190 unless im idling in traffic in summer then 195ish no cats. Go to Harbour Freight pick up one of those infrared laser thermometer i did good investment for around 20 bucks, you just point and shoot and see what exactly the temps are wherever you want. If you have electric fans and you push the probe too high up on rad when coolant goes down a little near probe height you get unreliable temp readings. If your going up over 200 and your not bubbling over and peeing in overflow when you shut car off i wouldnt get too worried. BTW if you decide to try a liquid additive to lower coolant temps stick with the green colored ones i used water wetter once and i thought my head gasket let go i had lots of brown slime in rad, finally i figured out it was that crap never again!

 

[Blown347]

With a stock thermostat it will creep up to 210 sometimes. That's fine. I run colder thermostats so both of mine run around 160

 

[87_notchfox]

Here's mine after driving about 25 min...

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[87_notchfox]

Well its not letting me post the pic

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[87_notchfox]

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[Blown347]

Oh I just remembered that you have AFR heads Emilio. You need to get a colder thermostat. 220 you run the risk of cracking aluminum heads. The iron heads are made to run hotter

 

[MustangDan351]

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No oil pressure!!! OMG!! Kidding, gauge not connected yet?

 

[87_notchfox]

Not yet waiting on a fitting so I can hook it up lol

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