Has anyone measured actual IC system coolant temps? If so.. how hot does the fluid get at it's maximum?

I'm not sure on this one.... but is there a temp sensor that's already in it's system?

(I already have a seperate temp sensor that I'm going to splice into the outlet hose. But it only goes up to 150F. So I'm wondering if I can either measure it in a different way or with my current sensor)

Thanks, Rich

 

I'm doing the same thing you are...

Recently bought a Autometer Water Temp gauge to install in the IC system. My gauge goes up to 250˚. Has anyone done this already and where is a good place to install the temp sensor? I also recently bought a 2nd oem heat exchanger to drop temps even more. Mods...

 

I'm going to make a fairly small pipe fitting that I can put in line just about anywhere.

I'm gonna put a cooler fan on mine but want to get some *before* temps this summer to make a good baseline study.

Rich

 

I think it'd be best to put it where the coolant enters the intercooler, i.e. right at the back of the blower.

 

Thanks. I'll give that a try along with a few other spots as well.

Rich

 

I'm new to the whole forced induction world, but I'd think you'd want the sensor at the hottest part of the system so you know what it reads at the highest temp, anything cooler than that is gravey. Or that's what we do with normal coolant temp. sensors.

 

Sometime in the near future my truck is gonna be a guinnie(spelling) pig for a heat exchanger fan set up and the company is gonna measure the temps before and after (a large reputable race supply company) I will let you all know the numbers and where they measured them when it is done.

 

Does the IC have a thermostat like the Engine Coolant does?

 

If you wanna get really slick you could do a setup similar to Tim Skelton's, and mount a temp sensor in the fluid line just before the blower and just after the blower, with a toggle switch going to a single water temp gauge. That way you could measure just how much the blower heats the IC fluid.

 

This would not be a good choice for a gauge. If the coolant ever gets up to the top of that range, very bad things will be happening. And the bottom range of that gauge is only 100, and has limited resolution.

I bought a Cyberdyne digital gauge. It's lower range is 49.



No, it doesn't match the Auto Meters, but Auto Meter does not make a gauge with the right low end. I am going to mount it in the plastic panel surrounding the steering column. Or in the console, if I ever get around to it.

Like BDAZSVT and wydopnthrtl, I bought mine to get baseline temps before hopping up the intercooling system.

While I don't disagree that the entrance to the blower would be the optimum setup, where you place the gauge does not seem really critical. The temp swings should be pretty gradual and uniform throughout the system -- at least they will be when I install the 2.5 gallon reservior.

The easy way would seem to be to either plumb it into one of the lines with a coupling or drill and tap one of the end tanks. I checked out the petc*ck, but it is not 1/8 NPT like the senders. Dunno -- haven't gotten that far yet, because I'm still a year away from the end of my warranty.