water temp to high?

[djturbo]

evening all,
 
i put some antifreeze in my fd two days ago, and the water temp went up to 98c never done it befor seems to be since i put the antifreeze in, it usualy stays at 85c  -  86c, just a bit woried to be fair, only had the car 3 weeks,is 98c a normal thing? cheers   ian.

[666rex]

hi ian, that does seem a bit strange, mine stays at 85-86,  what coolant did u use and did u mix with distilled water, remember they aint normal cars lol nick.

[djturbo]

hi nick, i put 1/3 of a 1 litre bottle of carplan blue star antifreeze in, no water, i didnt realise you have to put distilled water in,also i didnt mix it oops is that bad? cheers for the reply   ian.

[Jono FD3]

puting distilled water in does nothing the reason for this is, as soon as it goes through the iron plates it becomes the same as tap water..... so save the cost & just put tap water in

Could be a slight air lock..... try taking the water pipe off the back of the inlet manifold & see if it needs bleeding, & for the quantity you have put in you don\'t need to worry about the mix as there will be plenty of water in the system to dilute it.

Jono

[666rex]

new to rotarys myself jono, was told to mix by guy i bought it off, cheers tho

[666rex]

how long u had the rex for dj?

[djturbo]

oh i see cheers jono, il have a look afta , iv had the car 3 weeks nick, so mutch to learn bout these lol,  how long u had yours?

[666rex]

hi ian, took the plunge 5 weeks ago and didnt really do my homework as i shud av, bought with my heart definately not my head as she monsters petrol, fortunately i\'ve bought a good 1 with a recent full rebuild with large streetport with sensible and safe mods to go with it, good job its my weekend car, must be a nightmare as a daily, what spec u got, cheers.

[nuki]

Running water temp at 98c is way high i believe for water seals...
if i ever reach 100 i stop immediatleyto recover the temps.
You prob have an air lock of some form if this only started happening when playing with coolant.

[SiH]

98 is fine in some conditions. What were you doing at the time? Sitting in traffic? Caning it? On track etc?
You\'d be surprised the temps that you will reach. I\'ve frequently hit over than and not driven away with my car in bits

[Jono FD3]

Think the terminal death temp is something like 125c..... when you turn off the engine  after a run..... go back & flick on the ignition so the temp reads & you will be looking at a rather scairy 110c or something similar!! It\'s suprising how hot these things can get without dieing!!

Jono

[SiH]

Remember kids, it\'s not boiling at 100 degrees C...

[Jit]

On my stock Rex with stock rad I never see more than 90 even in traffic

[djturbo]

its a 94 type r fd3s in white nick,19inch crome rims bodykit ect it had a difrent engine put in by me mate, runin big single turbo however oil seals seem to be goin ,i knew about this wen i bought it payed £3500, get crimbo out the way and il sort that out,i drive it every day lucky i only live 3 miles from work lol,as for the coolant it does it if iv been driveing ova 25 mins, if im sat in trafic it goes up then if steady driveing will come down a cupple of degrees, il bleed the system tomrow and change the water is there anythin i should know? still a newbee to rotarys,il have a look what it says cupple of mins after shut off more paranoia lol,

[djturbo]

had a look at it today and found that the fans wasnt workin wen i turned the ignition on,they are constantly on in mine for some reason,also the car head unit sometimes doesnt come on, wile i was haveing a look earlier the alarm went off because i forgot to put the car in valet mode, wen i locked the car then opened it again the fans were workin and the stereo came on , are they linked in some way or what could it be im baffled to be fair, help needed im not to good at electrics :-(  ian