160° Thermostat
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160° Thermostat
Anybody know where I can get a 160° thermostat for a '93? I looked in Summit and Jegs and couldn't find anything... Neither of them are real "Corvette friendly", but it was somewhere to start...
Le Mans Master
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From: Kempner Texas
Read the detail area and you'll see it's a 160 stat.
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Do you think that 160 stats threaten the engine with a sound beating if it attempts to go over 160 degrees? Your cooling system cannot get rid of heat fast enough to maintain 160 F in the summer time, so your 160 stat will be wide open and if you think that is ok, then why don't you just save some money and work and don't even have a thermostat in your engine? If your current stat is wide open, then a 160 stat will also be wide open and you will experience the same coolant temperature.
Last edited by jfb; Aug 14, 2010 at 02:59 PM.
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You'll find lots of people have trouble answering a simple question w/o adding commentary -- especially if it deals with thermostats.
Part # 609-063 @ Mid-America Motorworks
Hypertech Brand "Powerstat"
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Part # 609-063 @ Mid-America Motorworks
Hypertech Brand "Powerstat"
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If you want to change the temp in traffic buy a real radiator... Once heat soaked it is what gets rid of heat. The stat is easy to change and cheap but actually changes nothing in the long run.
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They're everywhere. Jegs, Summit, Ebay, Autozone, O'reilly, Car Quest, Napa, ad infinitum.
To make it usefull, you will need to retune your cooling fans to come on sooner, say like 195* or so. However, if you did this with the stock 180* t-stat, you will acheive the same results. The thing is, once the t-stat opens, you coolant flow is the same. It is the radiator and the air passing through it that determines your running temps. Just like when your fans come on now, you see the temps drop. So if you want it to run cooler, turn the fans on sooner, and/or different radiator. But the 160 t-stat will make no difference once it is open.
To make it usefull, you will need to retune your cooling fans to come on sooner, say like 195* or so. However, if you did this with the stock 180* t-stat, you will acheive the same results. The thing is, once the t-stat opens, you coolant flow is the same. It is the radiator and the air passing through it that determines your running temps. Just like when your fans come on now, you see the temps drop. So if you want it to run cooler, turn the fans on sooner, and/or different radiator. But the 160 t-stat will make no difference once it is open.
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Since everyone here knows it all, where are the dyno sheets etc to prove that a cooler engine does/does not make more power per sey?
And if you go to a track, why do people cool the engines prior to a run?
So many people think they know it all, but in reality its all talk.
Show documented proof a cooler engine, in specific, this guys LT1 will not make more power if it runs cooler?
Also, one benefit it will attain is a cooler running transmission, as the radiator will cool the water longer to attain the 160 stat regulation.
My Vette with BeCool radiator and 160 stat runs 167 down the highway in 85 degree weather, with auto, 3000 rpm stall and 3.73 gears at 75mph. So, I know my transmission fluid is getting an additional 20 degrees of potentially cooler fluid, therefore prolonging its life.
And if you go to a track, why do people cool the engines prior to a run?
So many people think they know it all, but in reality its all talk.
Show documented proof a cooler engine, in specific, this guys LT1 will not make more power if it runs cooler?
Also, one benefit it will attain is a cooler running transmission, as the radiator will cool the water longer to attain the 160 stat regulation.
My Vette with BeCool radiator and 160 stat runs 167 down the highway in 85 degree weather, with auto, 3000 rpm stall and 3.73 gears at 75mph. So, I know my transmission fluid is getting an additional 20 degrees of potentially cooler fluid, therefore prolonging its life.
Melting Slicks
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From: Mystic CT
Since everyone here knows it all, where are the dyno sheets etc to prove that a cooler engine does/does not make more power per sey?
And if you go to a track, why do people cool the engines prior to a run?
So many people think they know it all, but in reality its all talk.
Show documented proof a cooler engine, in specific, this guys LT1 will not make more power if it runs cooler?
Also, one benefit it will attain is a cooler running transmission, as the radiator will cool the water longer to attain the 160 stat regulation.
My Vette with BeCool radiator and 160 stat runs 167 down the highway in 85 degree weather, with auto, 3000 rpm stall and 3.73 gears at 75mph. So, I know my transmission fluid is getting an additional 20 degrees of potentially cooler fluid, therefore prolonging its life.
And if you go to a track, why do people cool the engines prior to a run?
So many people think they know it all, but in reality its all talk.
Show documented proof a cooler engine, in specific, this guys LT1 will not make more power if it runs cooler?
Also, one benefit it will attain is a cooler running transmission, as the radiator will cool the water longer to attain the 160 stat regulation.
My Vette with BeCool radiator and 160 stat runs 167 down the highway in 85 degree weather, with auto, 3000 rpm stall and 3.73 gears at 75mph. So, I know my transmission fluid is getting an additional 20 degrees of potentially cooler fluid, therefore prolonging its life.
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