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I just purchased my first corvette (a childhood dream) i was wondersing what the normal running temps on the water and oil should be in 80 to 90 degree weather. Mine is a 06 C6 LS2 with a six speed, the water temp runs around 200 to 220 and at stop lights can get up to230 and drops back down when i start rolling again, the oil temp runs around 248, the salesman i bought the car from ownes a 05 C6 LS2 and he said those temp were normal for vettes, is this true? seems a little high to me. Any help would be apprecieated. "THANX" Steve- B....P.S. ...the temps are the same with the air on or off.
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St. Jude Donor '11-'12-'13-'14
I just purchased my first corvette (a childhood dream) i was wondersing what the normal running temps on the water and oil should be in 80 to 90 degree weather. Mine is a 06 C6 LS2 with a six speed, the water temp runs around 200 to 220 and at stop lights can get up to230 and drops back down when i start rolling again, the oil temp runs around 248, the salesman i bought the car from ownes a 05 C6 LS2 and he said those temp were normal for vettes, is this true? seems a little high to me. Any help would be apprecieated. "THANX" Steve- B....P.S. ...the temps are the same with the air on or off.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-c...7-2011-ls.html
This worked for me. They have one for the LS2 also.
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St. Jude Donor '06-'10, '13
Your coolant temps look normal for those conditions... Oil temp of 248 looks a tad high for just ideling in traffic, I would expect that temp if you were hammering on the car or at the track.
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Melting Slicks
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Your temps are normal...being old school, I like them a little cooler. I've used the 160 deg stat, works great...drops cruise temps (coolant) about 15-20 deg and keeps idle temps in the 200 range....
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OK for us non-mechanics (but learning - I did use to take apart, fix, and mod my old Nissan 300ZX back in the early ninetees when I was a teen, but that's like apples and oranges) - what exactly does a 160 stat do and how does it do it?
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THANX you guys for all the replys, your awesom! I think i'm going to drop a 160 thermostate in this bad boy just to see if that will drop the temps a little. I live in the so. cal desert and it gets pretty F#*^ing hot around here in the summer. Again thanx for the good feed back , we'll stay in touch.
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THANX you guys for all the replys, you guys are awesome, I think i'm going to drop a 160 thermostate with a little waterwetter in this bad boy just to help it out a little. I live in the so. cal desert and it gets F#%*ing hot around here in the summer. Again thank you for all the quik responses! Steve-B
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All the 160 stat will do is open at a lower temperature, in this case, 160, to allow the flow of coolant. It's fine if you're driving at a moderate speed since the air flow will cool it to that temperature but if you're in stop and go traffic, it'll heat up just like the stock 190 does. You will need to reprogram your fans to come on at a lower temperature to do any good. I really believe that if a 160 stat was better, it would be stock from the factory.
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All the 160 stat will do is open at a lower temperature, in this case, 160, to allow the flow of coolant. It's fine if you're driving at a moderate speed since the air flow will cool it to that temperature but if you're in stop and go traffic, it'll heat up just like the stock 190 does. You will need to reprogram your fans to come on at a lower temperature to do any good. I really believe that if a 160 stat was better, it would be stock from the factory.
On an otherwise stock car, a 160 t-stat is not really needed, and is not going to provide that much of a benefit unless you just want to run cooler just because... The car was designed to operate at the temps you described (again I only question your oil temp, your coolant temp seems perfectly normal) as mentioned also you wil need to re-program your fan to come on earlier as well to provide any real cooling benefit. If you were planning big mods.. (heads/cam or Supercharger) then I would say ok yes, the car needs a tune anyways and with the addtional power you'll want to run cooler. More HP = hotter temps.
On a stock car, leave the stock T-stat.
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I just purchased my first corvette (a childhood dream) i was wondersing what the normal running temps on the water and oil should be in 80 to 90 degree weather. Mine is a 06 C6 LS2 with a six speed, the water temp runs around 200 to 220 and at stop lights can get up to230 and drops back down when i start rolling again, the oil temp runs around 248, the salesman i bought the car from ownes a 05 C6 LS2 and he said those temp were normal for vettes, is this true? seems a little high to me. Any help would be apprecieated. "THANX" Steve- B....P.S. ...the temps are the same with the air on or off.
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A 160* stat will drop your water temps around 25* at cruise. Your oil temps will drop around 20* at cruise. If you reprogram your cooling fan temps, your idle temps and traffic temps will also drop accordingly. That said, the temps you reported are normal for the stock 187* stat. And while the 160 * stat is not necessary, I prefer them and have been running them in all my cars and trucks for years. Good luck with your new car, whichever way you decide to go .
I couldn't agree more I also run a 160* stat with a tune.
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Have you checked your radiator and in front underneath of the car for debris? These cars are like vacum cleaners they suck up everything. Again your coolant temps are normal, especially if you are sitting in traffic.
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By any chance are you running the car with the AC turned off? (Push the * button will turn it off.) With AC off, the fans may not be turning on until about 225 degrees. Any way, this is how a Cadillac Northstar works. With AC on, the fans run all the time.
Burning Brakes
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Talked to GM engineer a couple of years ago at Effingham and told him about my C5 running up to 230 in the summer in slow traffic and he said thats perfectly normal don't worry about it and don't change anything. When the fans kick in it will drop 10 to 20 degrees.
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I just purchased my first corvette (a childhood dream) i was wondersing what the normal running temps on the water and oil should be in 80 to 90 degree weather. Mine is a 06 C6 LS2 with a six speed, the water temp runs around 200 to 220 and at stop lights can get up to230 and drops back down when i start rolling again, the oil temp runs around 248, the salesman i bought the car from ownes a 05 C6 LS2 and he said those temp were normal for vettes, is this true? seems a little high to me. Any help would be apprecieated. "THANX" Steve- B....P.S. ...the temps are the same with the air on or off.
The car isn't some backwards 60s machine and unlike a lot of cars today it actually has an oil temp gauge and a coolant temp gauge that can be read Vs a coolant temp gauge that shows hot and cool with a normal range colored somewhere in between. The car with the unreadable gauge will be running at the same temps. You just don't know it.
Bill