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New '03 owner with a 'broken' car, advice needed (long post, sorry)
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<blockquote data-quote="speedoflife" data-source="post: 16255775" data-attributes="member: 153267"><p>Might be time to move on. It depends on what you want. These cars can be good track cars but they require some modifications to work well under extended periods of high-RPM driving. Forced induction produces so much excess heat. I’ll gather some links of what others have done to mitigate this (intercooler flow mods and tank-routed cooling systems are the most effective for track usage). The fact that you can’t reproduce the issue on the street leads me to believe your pressure is coming from heat, not leaking boost. I’d boost was getting into the intercooler system, you’d be able to spray coolant during your testing in Mexico. If it stays dry, then it would seem as though heat soak is causing the system to boil over. Your only solutions to that involve cooling mods. There is at least one member here, [USER=8854]@MalcolmV8[/USER], who has done extensive cooking mods. There was another member, jimmysidecar (or something like that - I’ll try to find him), who tracked their Cobra for extended periods as well.</p><p></p><p>The Terminator was engineered to go fast, not necessarily for multiple laps in a row. One thing about the car is that it takes a little bit of work to make it reliable in a prolonged-use track setting without cooldown periods. Just food for thought.</p><p></p><p>Edit: What cooling mods have been done to the car? Does it have a dual pass/upgraded heat exchanger in the front?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="speedoflife, post: 16255775, member: 153267"] Might be time to move on. It depends on what you want. These cars can be good track cars but they require some modifications to work well under extended periods of high-RPM driving. Forced induction produces so much excess heat. I’ll gather some links of what others have done to mitigate this (intercooler flow mods and tank-routed cooling systems are the most effective for track usage). The fact that you can’t reproduce the issue on the street leads me to believe your pressure is coming from heat, not leaking boost. I’d boost was getting into the intercooler system, you’d be able to spray coolant during your testing in Mexico. If it stays dry, then it would seem as though heat soak is causing the system to boil over. Your only solutions to that involve cooling mods. There is at least one member here, [USER=8854]@MalcolmV8[/USER], who has done extensive cooking mods. There was another member, jimmysidecar (or something like that - I’ll try to find him), who tracked their Cobra for extended periods as well. The Terminator was engineered to go fast, not necessarily for multiple laps in a row. One thing about the car is that it takes a little bit of work to make it reliable in a prolonged-use track setting without cooldown periods. Just food for thought. Edit: What cooling mods have been done to the car? Does it have a dual pass/upgraded heat exchanger in the front? [/QUOTE]
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