How hot does your engine get???

[shallowshowcase]

This being my first turbo car, it just stood out at me. But i bought a car that was hiding alot of problems (broken harmonic balancer, oil coming out of valve cover, fuel pump not mounted with the bolts, alot of stripped bolts)

after fixing what seems to be alot of the problems, ive always noticed how hot the car gets. my friends love it and ill drive down the road and back and we will throw ice on the exhaust manifold and watch it skip liquid and goto steam... this dont require much driving, either.. but its like after i get home from work i cant work on my car for HOURS or maybe even the next day.. well my question is

how hot is too hot???

 

[hellotbone]

The general concensus in most all cars is running a lower temp thermostat usually wears out your water pump quicker. And being that it takes so much time to change a wp in our cars, id probably just get another stocker. Then again this is coming from someone that has yet to put his thermostat back in , i usually have a max cruising temp of about 169+/- a few degrees.

You should do some research on what you posted here.

 

[talondude4]

You should do some research on what you posted here.

Well at least he learned some thing.(you learn something new everyday). But yeah searching does good. Ask more then one person to, too see if it is true.(This also helps).