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Old May 22, 2014 | 10:28 PM
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215 is only 3 degrees above boiling for plain water with no pressure (and that's if the gauge is accurate) and it only reaches it at 70 mph. I hope that if you spend enough to get the temp down to say 200 and feel better about it, you'll pass on the information to the rest of us what you did and what it cost to do that.
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Originally Posted by 65GGvert
215 is only 3 degrees above boiling for plain water with no pressure (and that's if the gauge is accurate) and it only reaches it at 70 mph. I hope that if you spend enough to get the temp down to say 200 and feel better about it, you'll pass on the information to the rest of us what you did and what it cost to do that.
While this is true normally in a pressurized environment it is more like 250 degrees at 15 ish psi. Add coolant and it goes up from there.

230 degrees is in the very safe zone.
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Old May 23, 2014 | 07:41 AM
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Originally Posted by vetteLT193
While this is true normally in a pressurized environment it is more like 250 degrees at 15 ish psi. Add coolant and it goes up from there.

230 degrees is in the very safe zone.
That was my point. I think he's working on a problem that isn't a problem.
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