What is the correct thermostat?
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What is the correct thermostat?
I see that people, on the forum, change the thermostats in their car. I see vendors advertise different temp ranges. What's the real answer? In the summer months, if I get caught in bumper to bumper traffic, I see temps of 220 degrees. What's the fix? :crazy: :confused:
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Re: What is the correct thermostat? (vetteguy98)
Lower temp thermostats will not lower temps while sitting in bumper to bumper traffic on a hot day. You can leave your stock thermo in the car and purchase either a Hypertech unit or LS1 Edit and program your fans to come on earlier. In the past I had done that with a Hypertech, I set the fans to come on at 194. No matter what I did with the car it NEVER went over 194.
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Re: What is the correct thermostat? (vetteguy98)
I have a 99 and have been driving with the a/c on..My temp has been around 200 in traffic, but if I turn the a/c off it goes up to 228. I guess only one fan runs with the a/c off and two when the a/c is on. Is this right? :nonod:
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Re: What is the correct thermostat? (9vette9)
I guess only one fan runs with the a/c off and two when the a/c is on. Is this right? :nonod:
With the above computer changes you can have both fans turn on earlier keeping the engine cooler. For a stock car it is ok if the car runs 230 as it was designed to do so.
For a High HP S/C car like mine, lower temps are better for the application.
So what I am trying to say is... your car is acting normal and there is really no reason to do any computer mods to the cooling temps.
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Re: What is the correct thermostat? (vetterdstr)
I'm running the 160 stat with the Hypertech PP3. The average expected coolant temperature for me is 178 now which is pretty consistent. I was seeing 194 or more likely over 200 before the install. It now does go above 178 sporaticaly, but I rarely see near 200 for very long. I think this helps keep the footwells and tunnel cooler, but I could be wrong. It might be the placebo effect. I've been running this way for over a year and a half now. I still get plenty of heat in the Philadelphia freezing cold too. Just yesterday, I ran with the targa roof out and the heat blasting in 30 degree cold windy dry weather. No complaints.
