Totally got my balt today... Black with pin stripes... and a high wing, sexy lil car. i like it a lot got 31 mpg on my way back home doing 70 on the interstate... that was a 4 hour drive home so worth it though i luv this lil car.

 

so you own the car for 4 hours and total it? or was it just this one incident?

 

huh? lol

 

read slower bro

he said "totally got my balt"

he never mentioned "totaling" his car.

 

So did I when I first got mine... give it a year!! LOL

 

wahahhahaha, stupid me...... congratulation anyway on your new balt.

 

thanks, quick question... the fan stays on some times, i'm assuming because the coolant is to high. what's normal? i ran almost 5 minutes before i walked out and turned the car back on and let it sit a sec i wanted the coolant temp go from 232 down to 210 before it cut off then it went down to 200 n i shut the car back off... is the coolant temp supposed to be that high? is that bad? is something wrong? it was prolly like 250 before i walked back out to turn it back on

i'm not gettin anywhere close to 0-60 in 5.5 seconds either... more like 8 to 9... but i'm not spinning my tires either... just riding the clutch sum lol.. (okay maybe a lot, but only in first )

 

I want an SS/TC..... I'll wait a little longer and probably get one

 

So you turned the car on and the temp was 232*?

 

.. after driving it.. like stoping and doing a 0-60 pull 3 or 4 times... and the first time i took it to 100... but yes... i was inside for a few minutes and stuck my head back out of the door and i could hear it still running... so when i turned it on and went to the coolant temp it said 232 and went down a degree or two at a time to 210 then the fan shut off

 

Do you have the RPD (you should be able to see spark advance with it), it shouldn't start pulling timing at 210, you should be fine at that temp, what does it read when you are driving?

 

Idk i didn't think to look at it... maybe it wasn't a few minutes but the car was def off and the fan was still running... i did the pulls back to back... but the fan came on yesterday and i wasn't running it hard at all and it didn't turn off till i got in it and started it. (which was only like 30 seconds after i shut it off)

no i don't have the RPD but i have a dashdaq on order..

 

that's why I let the car cool down a little when I drive it hard and dont turn the engine off right away

 

ya thats hella bad on a turbo'd car to go beat it and turn it off right away.
u gotta wait atleast 45secs-1min then u can turn it off.

 

oh ok.. so that's normal though for it to do that? i drove it down my street normally... but it may have only been 20 or 30 seconds lol... i'll know now tho next time... what's a high coolant temp? or the highest you guys have seen yours?

 

highest I've seen was 212* in freeway traffic on a hot day

 

hmm... lol... but was you mashin it? or just casual driving...

makes me think something is wrong but lord knows how high it was before i turned the car off... i gotta start checkin it after i do stuff like that... don' wanna mess my baby up

 

Freeway TRAFFIC! lol

The way I look at it when you turn the car off right away after hard runs the coolant is just cooking and getting hot

 

usually it stays around 200... 196 ish to like 203 or 205

um. what cools down the coolant?

 

Damn anything over 205 and i usually kick the fans on with the AC ....then wait till 192-194 before I shut her off lol

 

yall think maybe if i used a different kind of coolant it would work better?

no one has ever seen there's over 220? i'm gettin worried

 

Did you buy the car new? If so, first car?

 

no my truck is turbo charged but it never got that high... and yes the car had 18 miles on it when i got it... well after i was done driving it it had like 50 lol.

well it's not my first car but it's my first turbo'd car...

 

I know some of you don't care about things like this, but I was brought up by an old-timer gearhead so I've gotta say.... you might wanna look into the proper methods of breaking in a new car for next time.

 

what's proper? i drove it 65 with the cruse on the hole way home..got 32mpg lol yay!... i only got like 20 in my turck doin 65. car's got almost 500 miles on it now...