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| wrench87 |
06-08-2012 10:58 AM |
fe and coolant temp
I finally got my 445 running, I took it for a short ride I want to know what temp in celcius these engnes should run at?. I have the edelbrock waterpump, a 180 t stat, march waterpump pulley and the pulley on the balancer came with the professional products sfi balancer, the alt is a stock v belt pulley. I was running at 100 degrees celcius, I have a ron davis radiator it use to run at 90 degrees celius with the smallblock ?. steve
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| Clois Harlan |
06-08-2012 12:27 PM |
Around 95-98 deg C
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| vettestr |
06-08-2012 12:40 PM |
Congrats on getting her running. Your running a 180 T-stat so that should be your average displayed temp. A 100C is 212 F.
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| Cobranut |
09-26-2012 03:19 PM |
180* f = 82.2* C
If your cooling system has sufficient capacity your temp should slowly cycle a few degrees above and below the thermostat opening point.
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if the march pulley is an under drive put the stock pulley back on.
the march pulley made me run hot too, mostly low rpms.
try it, see if it''l drop down to 190-195
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| kgs365 |
09-26-2012 07:41 PM |
Yes regular stock pulleys on my 445 and I run 180-190 traffic hot weather etc...
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| patrickt |
09-26-2012 07:54 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by kgs365
(Post 1212759)
Yes regular stock pulleys on my 445 and I run 180-190 traffic hot weather etc...
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Same. Today, with the weather in the low 70's, on the highway cruising normally, the temp ran in the low 80's Celsius. After running it "lightly hard" in the afternoon, with the weather around 80 or so, after getting off the highway, it went to 90 Celsius, and then eased back to 85 Celsius with the single puller fan running in normal traffic. This is pretty typical for my FE. Over the summer I was stuck in traffic with the weather at 100 degrees and sticky humid. My FE climbed to the low 90's Celsius. If I turned on the auxiliary pushers to supplement the puller, it would drop down to below 90. |
| bulletbrown |
09-29-2012 12:10 PM |
You may want to drop the thermostat to what they where running in the 60,s and that is a 165 in FE,s . Just a thought , I did and I have a 165 in for eight years . You start cycling cast blocks with modern aluminum heads 25 to 30 degrees or more on a continous bases I have to believe you are going to have problems . Check the CFM,s of your fan you want at lease a 3600 CFM . A lot of the kits have cheap low volume fans 1600 or so and they will not cut it. The radiator maybe to small that came with the Kit as well. Mine was.
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