Re:Holy engine temp gauge batman!
 

It works now, but it did get up there(close to red) the other day driving to work while waiting in traffic. It was in the high 80s/low 90 and may car has that jumping idle so it either jumps up and down or stays at 2200rpms constantly. Also if you don't mix up the coolant and water correctly and put too much wter instead of coolant would that cause the car to overheat sometimes? That was just one day and the pass couple of days it's been okay.

Re:Holy engine temp gauge batman!
 

supposed to have a 50/50 mix or more coolant. I dont know for sure, but im pretty sure water has a lower boiling point.

Re:Holy engine temp gauge batman!
 

50-50 to 75-50 coolant to water. something's wrong...you should never get over half to 3/4. mine never gets above 1/3 with a turbo boosting like a madman.

Re:Holy engine temp gauge batman!
 

i have a 93 turbo civic as well with the small rad and i just rigged the fan to run all the time and she still overheats, i stop and pull over befoer the needle goes above halfway, i have no thermostat either, i did a flush too, pumps working cant figure it out, it only does it going up a hill on the highway.

Re:Holy engine temp gauge batman!
 

try a del sol vtec rad, doube core thickness.

Re:Holy engine temp gauge batman!
 

most of the time when you water pump is about to go it will squeel like a pig being slaughtered it happened on my civic and you can usually hear it when it wants to be replaced

Re:Holy engine temp gauge batman!
 

No squelling but it's kind of odd cause sometimes the temp needle is getting pretty high and then just drops back down to normal and goes back up. Not sure if the temp sensor is going or what. I'm putting in a coolant temp gauge just to be safe.

Re:Holy engine temp gauge batman!
 

if the aftermarket temp gauge gives u the same results, hot engine, then its time to change to a different non-stock rad!!

you can't turbo a car with and old stock crappy thin rad and expect not to get hotter. the bigger explosion in those cylinders is WAY hotter then n/a cars

Re:Holy engine temp gauge batman!
 

Just ordered my delsol dual core rad. and a blitz rad. cap and I'll put a new water pump even though the engine was completely rebuilt last summer, who knows and the new stock head will be going on inplace of the high comp. all motor head. Nex weekend will be under the hood again. this weekend is taking out the ole d15b2 and putting in the d16y7 in the civic, then the crx next weekend. Oh the joys of hondas, never a boring weekend! Hopefully the whole new cooling setup will solve the overheating problems. I'm using a spoon rad. cap and if not for that I'd probaly be like old faithful on the side of the highway.

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I know this isn't the classifieds but this deals with the cooling issue. Upon purchasing my new rad. it dawned on me, "hey stupid your fan won't work with this rad!" Yeah I know this is homemadeturbo and everything can be made to work, hey a 14b to hf manifold nuff said. Anyway anyone have a fan for the radiator? It's the single side dual core.