get my car back Thursday - EXCITED

[shane@mbtech]

Originally Posted by shimmy

big oil rad from Turner fitted is £1000 so you spend more than mr just covering up the problem. CSL has done trackdays in warm weather no probs until recently so something new has caused this. Go check out the USA sites for all the guys who have spunked £ks on water rads, oil rads and pumps to do no good at all.

I think the problem dud occur every time I was at full revs and full throttle but to tip the guage over to red it needs oil temp highish and then track temp say in my case 27deg plus to not allow the cooiling to be sufficient.

You only gave to drop water temp 1-2 deg to get back from red line to 3/4.

I agree 100%, if your coolant temp is pushing to near the red, you have a SERIOUS problem, gorilla was chatting some things about causes but i dont believe him as he contradicted what he was saying. My cars coolant temps do not budge on uk tracks and i drive the nuts off it. If it suddenly starts to rise, something has changed. So in this respect fitting a different stat or cooler is not the fix. I would have to find the cause.
Fitting tropical stats, bigger oil coolers etc I feel will NOT solve your problem, an oil cooler will be beneficial of course. But you have an underlying problem 777, as shims has discovered with his car.

I would have liked to have viewed his gasket, head block etc, but judging by what he was saying it sounds to me like the overheating caused his gasket failure. If the impeller on the water pump was loose/wobbling, this could be your cause of overheating could it not???

Hope everything turns out ok for you shims, i think all will be good for you