My Cooling Improvement Project (hopefully)

Well, I finally got a chance today to take the Vert for a drive to test my cooling mods.

The temps were not as warm as I would have liked for a really good test.
It was around 75* to 78* and the air was pretty damp, we had rain moving in.

We drove the car at varying speeds and loads so that the F.A.S.T. XFI 2.0 would learn. The roads here are very curvy and hilly.

The first leg of the trip was 10 miles. The car held a steady 192*. We stopped and let the car idle while we saved the log and started a new log for the trip home. While stopped the car climbed to 198* then up to 203*.

The return trip was the same 10 miles back home and same type of driving. The last mile to the house is a narrow , curvy, hilly blacktop road so that part of the trip is not much over idle.

When we turned off the road for the last 1000 feet to the shop, the temp was still 203*. By the time we got to the shop the temp had climbed to 206* and on shut down heat soaked to 210*.

All in all much better then the 240*,250* and at times 260* temps I was seeing before the mods.

I think some if not a lot of the temps being a little high at the end of the trip are due to the F.A.S.T. XFI 2.0 not being tuned properly, but at least now I can drive the car and let it tune where I could not before.

I need to learn how to tune the system beyond the self tune on the fuel tables.

I may try to build another shroud from aluminum and mount and install the duel 11" Spall fans and see what happens.

Herb