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Old 05-24-2012, 09:27 AM   #10
thstone
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Originally Posted by Kenny Boxster View Post
250?! Bloody hell! I could never imagine my car capable of getting that high without some catastrophic cooling problem. But then again, I have never taken my car on the track.
On the street my coolent temp gauge runs just slightly over the 180 mark all of the time and almost never varies. On the track its normal to see the coolent at 220F - and that is the coolent, the oil temp in the engine is likely higher so 250F is certainly within reason.
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