crazy idea

1400F? Wow, that's hotter than I imagined but KB builds race motors, maybe a little hotter than a stocker? Here is a Toyota Land Cruiser lo-po motor that was recorded: "I screwed on a sensor (PT100 type) and use a digital indicator in a very visible site. The motor is a 2H without turbo, in a 1980 HJ60. After warm-up and then several km flat driving, there was a 2 km climb, at full throttle the maximum temp was 115 C (239 F). On flat again, going some 100 km/h it dropped to about 90 C (194 F). I did the same installation on our other LC (1987) with the 3B motor. On the 2 km climb, this one reached maximum of 305 C (=581 F), and cruising along afterwards it dropped to 205 C (401 F)..."


He told me any colder than that you would have problems with fouling plugs, I have a fluke temp meter that goes to 2500f and I put it on the outside of the header tube about 1in out and it reads around 650f - 700f and I'm sure it twice that inside the header