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Regarding overheating, I had the problem again the last two days at Thunderhill where the ambient temps were in the mid to high 90F and track temp was as high as 143F (shade was 104F).

Before this track event, I had drained the radiatior from the lower bleed valve and added one gallon of distilled water to make it more like 65/35 mix and already had one bottle of RedLine's wetter. Though it helped a little by only delaying the overheating by one more lap. Al Terpak had the same issue with similar setup. Kip - whose car has an oil cooler was getting some higher reading temps as well but not as high as ours. On the other hand, SMGNSX (Steve Ghent) on this forum had changed all his hoses and was running on 100% distilled water with a bottle of wetter, his temp gauge stayed on the middle - and he was keeping the car in the VTEC most of the time. So perhaps the antifreeze might be the issue.

I also hear rumors of a new racing radiator will become avialable soon :wink:

<blockquote data-quote="Hrant" data-source="post: 484039" data-attributes="member: 4839">Regarding overheating, I had the problem again the last two days at Thunderhill where the ambient temps were in the mid to high 90F and track temp was as high as 143F (shade was 104F).Before this track event, I had drained the radiatior from the lower bleed valve and added one gallon of distilled water to make it more like 65/35 mix and already had one bottle of RedLine&#039;s wetter. Though it helped a little by only delaying the overheating by one more lap. Al Terpak had the same issue with similar setup. Kip - whose car has an oil cooler was getting some higher reading temps as well but not as high as ours. On the other hand, SMGNSX (Steve Ghent) on this forum had changed all his hoses and was running on 100% distilled water with a bottle of wetter, his temp gauge stayed on the middle - and he was keeping the car in the VTEC most of the time. So perhaps the antifreeze might be the issue.I also hear rumors of a new racing radiator will become avialable soon&nbsp; :wink:</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hrant, post: 484039, member: 4839"] Regarding overheating, I had the problem again the last two days at Thunderhill where the ambient temps were in the mid to high 90F and track temp was as high as 143F (shade was 104F). Before this track event, I had drained the radiatior from the lower bleed valve and added one gallon of distilled water to make it more like 65/35 mix and already had one bottle of RedLine's wetter. Though it helped a little by only delaying the overheating by one more lap. Al Terpak had the same issue with similar setup. Kip - whose car has an oil cooler was getting some higher reading temps as well but not as high as ours. On the other hand, SMGNSX (Steve Ghent) on this forum had changed all his hoses and was running on 100% distilled water with a bottle of wetter, his temp gauge stayed on the middle - and he was keeping the car in the VTEC most of the time. So perhaps the antifreeze might be the issue. I also hear rumors of a new racing radiator will become avialable soon :wink: [/QUOTE]

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