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Is it me or is it when you installed your super charger your coolant temps go up?. My car used to stay between 180-185 when it was n/a and now that the car is force inducted it stays around19-200 degrees. Granted, its not getting out of control but I would be more at ease if it were back to 180-185 degrees. I think Im going to geta mezeir water pump and see how that does. Have any of you guys noticed this in your rides?
Forced induction definitely adds temp. I haven't run my car yet our of the garage, but the few times I have started it and let it run, I did notice that it heats up much quicker than it did before, and that's not even driving the car, that's just sitting there. Even ATI says that you are going to need an adaquate cooling system for the substantial power increase. Even by itself, the blower creates heat and requires power to opperate which all to the engine temp.
I was having some problems and my car is daily driven. I went with a 180 t-stat, one bottle of waterwetter and about 25% antifreeze which seemed to help alot. Haven't had any really hot days yet to test it out fully, but it doesn't get as warm as it did. Hoping I don't have to drop more coin for an aftermarket radiator.
Brian
Yea, a good idea to keep coolant temps down is to run ~20-25% coolant, 2 bottles of water wetter, and the rest water. That should definitely help keep anyones coolant temp down. I am curious to see how mine is going to deal with the extra power. Guess we will find out on Monday for sure (Dyno Day!).