Fired that shit up tonight!!!!
 

Im having a few problems....The engine keeps overheating and i dont know why. Any of you with crx's uses a half rad? How the ---- do u install them into a crx?

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zip ties, my friend, zip ties.

did you remember to put in coolant?

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so what you boosted? does it over heat when after you boost?

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you shouldnt be overheating. it cools just as efficient. did you bleed the system of all the air and have a good thermostat ?

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it seems to overheat after i boost. no i didnt bleed the system.It shoots up all of a sudden. The fisrt time it did coolant burst out of the hose....so im assuming that did it the fisrt time

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head gasket buddy head gasket. change it and you'll be good to go

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the motor is brand new.....dont think its the head gasket

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the motor runs azaing on boost for awhile .....and then its starts to overheat and then it will go back down ...its weird

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yup sounds like a headgasket...

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i dont think it is......i had the same problem when i fisrt ran my motor....the motor has 600 mile son it and 5 on boost, i doubt the headgasket went already

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is your fan coming on at all?

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do a little bit of what everybody is suggesting.
bleed and bleed your system. let your engine idle and coem to temp so the cooling system starts to cycle. make sure the thermostat is opening/closing.
you can always do a compression test to see if you get a funny reading between a couple cylinders, that couple help id the headgasket leaking.

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I'd say thermostat

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did you hook up the coolent to your turbo? That could be the problem. Heres how to fix that. If you bought a half radiator from the auto parts store it should be set up for an automatic tranny. Hook the coolent lines up the the tranny lines that arn't being used. this should cool the coolent off quite a bit. I have never done this just a theory. Thats what I plan to do. If that doesn't work just get a separate cooler on the side. Your turbo is making way to much heat for your radiator to dissapate.

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you have to have a feed and a return into the cooling system if your going to use the tranny cooler man. if you just run turbo lines into it there is nothing to pump it and keep it circulating. i was thinking about putting an oil cooler after the block fitting before the turbo, anyone done this?