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anyone else have this odd heat soak power loss when in trafic or anything? i installed a cooling plate with the duct to the factory intake box and i noticed that it goes away after maybe 2 mins of moving again.
what im wondering is, does anyone have this style of cooling plate and have you removed the factory cooling shroud and gotten rid of this problem?
also what about cooling issues after taking out the factory piece
yea s2000 is prone to heat seak.. try adding a aftermarket radiator cap, fan switch, and thermostat
wont do anything, correct me if i'm wrong but thats for engine temp, not intake air temp, which is why heat soak occurs, bc of the hot air entering the intake. it all depends on what kind of aftermarket intake you have. some have heat shields to somewhat help, some dont. type heat soak in the search box and read some of the posts, you'll find interesting ways to help out with the heat soak.
well, my cooling plate is also like a "ram air" scoop. it feeds directly into the stock airbox "horn" thing. it looks like a horn tweeter on a PA system.
but what kind of "low temp" t-stats and rad caps are people running? also does that affect the "cold redline" issue???
The OEM air box seperates the hot air from the radiator and the engine bay. Once you remove it you're gonna get heat soak into the air intake and manifold. I use a Siebon SC cooling plate and never had a problem even in 100+ temps. BTW I did remove the factory shroud without consequence.
You know, its not really heat soak, its hot air surrounding the car while its standing still, and hot air is less dense and thus you get less power when you go to start moving again. The real thing you need to do is clear the hot air out from the intake system and from in front of the intake opening, and the most common way to do that is to drive and get the car moving through cooler air.
Of course, you have to get the car moving first - blip the throttle a couple times and the hot air in the intake system will "flush out", pulling cooler air (but still hot) from outside the system and alleviating the problem somewhat.
Originally Posted by Saki GT,Oct 18 2007, 05:22 PM
You know, its not really heat soak, its hot air surrounding the car while its standing still, and hot air is less dense and thus you get less power when you go to start moving again. The real thing you need to do is clear the hot air out from the intake system and from in front of the intake opening, and the most common way to do that is to drive and get the car moving through cooler air.
Of course, you have to get the car moving first - blip the throttle a couple times and the hot air in the intake system will "flush out", pulling cooler air (but still hot) from outside the system and alleviating the problem somewhat.
It is heat soak! The intake manifold gets really hot causing the IAT to rise. Surrounding temp does play a role in this but the main reason is the intake manifolds temp increasing.
10-16-2007, 07:35 PM
heat soak power loss and a cooling plate
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