4age engine temp and warm up time.
Car - ae86
motor / part in question - 4age 16v bigport, rebuilt approx 60000km's ago.
problem - Rapid warm up time (<5mins)
occurs/started when (if applicable)-
personal situation (if applicable)- Was wondering how long people's engines normally take to warm up and where the needle usually sits on the stock gauge once it does.
I noticed that my car takes around 3mins to get up to temperature, needle sits slightly past the first verticle line on the "M" in temp on the stock temperature gauge, also have an aftermarket temp gauge which sits at 89ish Celsius. The temp has only started to rise above this once when I was giving it a thrash up a mountain, slowly rose to just under 100 until I backed off and it dropped back down. Is this reasonable, I did a search and 82 seems to be the normal?
The engine is running the FWD cooling system with modded piping, not sure on the radiator. Has an electric fan which turns on as soon as the ignition is on and shroud as well as an oil cooler. Radiator is full and has green coolant. OEM temp sender is on the top radiator inlet and the aftermarket one is screwed into the block under the extractors, faulty reading?
Only just talked to the previous owner then to get this information but will go down in the morning and check the exact location/setup.
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