How does your car like the heat?

[MyBeatGSX]

Mine sure doesn't.

My O2 reads full rich ALL the time (brand new sensor). My SAFC knock number is around 20 at idle (its relative, I don't care how accurate people think it is or isn't). And everything under the hood is scorching hot (like unreasonably hot) after a 3 minute drive, dispite the fact that my stock temp gauge is reading the same it reads on a 15* winter day. Oh yea, and I don't dare to boost for fear that the stock sidemount might start to melt.

Not to mention the fact that my a/c doesn't work and I have leather seats.

Wow I can't wait for a real hot day (its only like 90* now). I pity you people that live in the southwest.

 

[1stGenRocks]

I dont have time to go into all the aero reasoning but lifting the back of your hood only helps when the car is sitting still. as soon as your going 10mph or so the base of the windshield becomes a high pressure area and forces air back into the engine bay without going through the radiator. this means that your engien is running hotter.

 

[MyBeatGSX]

I dont have time to go into all the aero reasoning but lifting the back of your hood only helps when the car is sitting still. as soon as your going 10mph or so the base of the windshield becomes a high pressure area and forces air back into the engine bay without going through the radiator. this means that your engien is running hotter.

No please, explain. There's supposed to be a low pressure zone created behind the raised hood (just like behind the back of the car) that sucks hot air OUT of the engine bay. Or at least that's what I had always believed. Seems like hood vents would create the same issue.... or even just removing that weather stripping would still let high pressure air get forced in, but yet people have proof that it lowers temps. Guys on srtforums.com (or some srt-4 site) have logs showing 20-50* drops in underhood temps from raising the hood. How does that work?

 

[VPrime]

Hmm, my idle jumps up tolike 2000-3000 rpm (like others stated)
but I also get this weird buzz/humm/vibration sound that comes fromt he engine bay... witht he car on or off (sounds like a louder windshield washer pump).. oh and you can feel it...
any one else get this? (or atleast know what it is?)

 

[Whiplash]

Mine likes to jump to 2k RPM.

 

[MyBeatGSX]

BeatMyGSX:

I was in your neck of the woods last weekend.
Nice town!
But the 1hr 45min drive there was killer on my idle at stop lights.
Other than that, a non working A/C (w/Black leather), side mount heatsoak (now its at 12psi) and sluggish in low gears and RPMS.


STOOPID hot air!

Yea its not a bad town, too many lights though and the roads are in sucky condition. Where were you coming from? I didn't know it took an hour and 45 minutes to get here from anywhere in connecticut.

VPrime, it does it when the car is OFF? So its constantly humming when its hot outside?? That's weird, I've never heard of anything like that, it can't be anything good.

 

[siceclipse]

comming from Greenwich.
I took 95 to RT-8 to 84 to that extention in Plainsville
when i went home i went on the extention, got onto 84 west and went down RT-7.

 

[antlip]

im about 210 to 225, goes up a bit when i get on it but drops right back down when i back out the gas. this was on the like 90 degree day we had. and when i turn the ac on the car idles at like 300 rpms but when i get on the gas it runs at normal rpms and i get some cold antartica air.

 

[VPrime]

VPrime, it does it when the car is OFF? So its constantly humming when its hot outside?? That's weird, I've never heard of anything like that, it can't be anything good.

it isnt constant. it goes on for 1 or 2 seconds than goes away for atleast 10 minutes (some times the whole day). It does this with the car on, or off.

 

[Mitsu RacerX]

My car hates the heat. If its a good cool day my car runs good. If its cloudy and the humidity is up the car will hual ass, but if its hot(which is usually is here in the south) it sucks.