13-08-2013, 10:08 AM
(11-08-2013, 01:09 PM)7057sam Wrote: I don't run one.took it out to lower my water temp.
Precisely why this is happening.
You CANNOT take out a thermostat since it's now easier for most of the water flow to go down the bypass pipe rather than through the engine... You're getting about a 10th of the water flow you should be getting... The bypass pipe is there to ensure that you get SOME water flow through the engine to stop hot spots, but the bypass isn't cooled so that the water warms up fast, but warms up evenly.
If you want to have no thermostat - I would NOT recommend it, since the IQ Correction maps will always be to cock and it'll be overfuelling like a whore most of the time, but anyway, get the thermostat and jam the spring the other side of the valve - that'll have the same effect of the thermostat always being open, but always blocking off the bypass pipe.
I'd sort that sooner than later otherwise you really will cook the engine and cylinder head.
