Look what 1cm did for me..
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...took a saw to the number plate this afternoon and took a centimetre of the bottom of the plate. The difference in the cooling was amazing. Whereas before the car would take a while to cool down after a spell in traffic now it comes down a lot quicker, runs at 90 and doesn’t budge.
Who said size don’t matter.
Who said size don’t matter.
RAW-SEWedge said:
runs at 90
mph? mpg? or degrees F, or C? Out of interest though what was it doing before? In conversations with my guru, he claims that, when working correctly, the standard kit is quite adequate. I can only add that I've never had a problem (touch wood) even when I had a short burst of 110 degrees on my Ride Drive "thrash" on the hottest day of 2003. I am genuinely surprised that overheating causes as many problems as it seesm on the Griff (or any TVR)......
The car never overheats and has had a re-cored radiator recently. It is just noticeably quicker to drop to 90deg C when you get out of traffic. In traffic it runs up to the white line then the fans kick in which slowly brings it down. I’m suspicious of the spec of the otter switch however because I thought the fans should cut in earlier.
TeGriffic said:
Wouldn't a simply override switch have been a better option than sawing your number plate ?
Think your missing the point a little. The car does not over heat in traffic so I've no need to override the otter switch. However the plate was casuing a restriction in the air flow to the rad. I was just amazed at how much difference 1cm off the bottom of the plate made, it took 5 minutes to do and cost me nothing
...but then again, seeing as I'm here, the later griffs have a small ally lip spoiler behind the sloped grille under the rad - I fitted one to my pre-cat (which has restricted airflow compared to a 500 anyway), at a cost of about £13 I think from the main dealers, and it now runs a good 5-10 degC cooler when on the move - just an experiment really, didn't have a cooling prob anyway, everything works fine, so far...
If I had a 500 with the reg plate over part of the air inlet, I'd be tempted to drill/jigsaw out the numbers/letters on the plate to give airflow thru the reg plate if you see what I mean...time for my pills
If I had a 500 with the reg plate over part of the air inlet, I'd be tempted to drill/jigsaw out the numbers/letters on the plate to give airflow thru the reg plate if you see what I mean...time for my pills
Well, after reading this thread I went and did the same to my number plate. I noticed an immediate improvement.
Encouraged by this I got the tin bender out and made up a spoiler to replace the missing one by the rad intake.
Both together have improved cooling no end, returning the temp back to 80 degrees almost immediately once moving.. well worth doing IMHO
Encouraged by this I got the tin bender out and made up a spoiler to replace the missing one by the rad intake.
Both together have improved cooling no end, returning the temp back to 80 degrees almost immediately once moving.. well worth doing IMHO
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