Water Temp in GT3 Cars

[Igakusei-chan]

How much should it be?
Like, what is the limit before the engine will say "byebye" ?

[Para]

As a rule of thumb:
Boiling or freezing water is never good, ideally lower than 100°C, but higher than 0°C.

[86TMH]

I think when you're over the 140's, it's time to start looking for a place to pull in.

[Igakusei-chan]

Originally posted by Smurfasaurus Rekt #sagvodafone:

As a rule of thumb:
Boiling or freezing water is never good, ideally lower than 100°C, but higher than 0°C.

I thought the same, but in my real life Race-Kart is the perfect Temp 62°C.

So I wasnt sure =)

Originally posted by 86themadhatter:

I think when you're over the 140's, it's time to start looking for a place to pull in.

Will the Temp affect my perfomance? Or will it just bring my engine to explode?

[86TMH]

Originally posted by Rei Ayanami ♥:

Originally posted by Smurfasaurus Rekt #sagvodafone:

As a rule of thumb:
Boiling or freezing water is never good, ideally lower than 100°C, but higher than 0°C.

I thought the same, but in my real life Race-Kart is the perfect Temp 62°C.

So I wasnt sure =)

Originally posted by 86themadhatter:

I think when you're over the 140's, it's time to start looking for a place to pull in.

Will the Temp affect my perfomance? Or will it just bring my engine to explode?

Your engine will fail after a while. Only thing to do is try and keep the revs down but either way you will lose time or DNF. I imagine you could pit in to fix the issue but i usually let it pop lol

[Dog_in_Car]

Originally posted by Smurfasaurus Rekt #sagvodafone:

As a rule of thumb:
Boiling or freezing water is never good, ideally lower than 100°C, but higher than 0°C.

anitfreeze raises the boiling point btw

[Bob]

That's why they call it antifreeze.

[Dog_in_Car]

they call it anti freeze because it also lowers the freezing point

[86TMH]

Originally posted by nsdewitt:

Originally posted by Smurfasaurus Rekt #sagvodafone:

As a rule of thumb:
Boiling or freezing water is never good, ideally lower than 100°C, but higher than 0°C.

anitfreeze raises the boiling point btw

That's interesting. I never heard that before. Any idea what it raises it to or is there no fixed temperature?

[rth0m]

would depend on concentration levels. waterless coolant is good stuff. -40 to +180

[86TMH]

Originally posted by Real_Reece:

would depend on concentration levels. waterless coolant is good stuff. -40 to +180

Damn i should have tried that when my head gasket was close to popping lol

[Dog_in_Car]

50/50 is something like -35 and 225F, 70/30 boiling is around 240F I think. Its not going to prevent a head/block from warping and destroying gaskets though

[86TMH]

Originally posted by nsdewitt:

50/50 is something like -35 and 225F, 70/30 boiling is around 240F I think. Its not going to prevent a head/block from warping and destroying gaskets though

It may have saved me the embarrassment of over heating in traffic XD Another 10*c and i may have gotten away with it.

[Igakusei-chan]

Just as a summary:

If I stay under 100 °C its good ok.
But if I am too low with the temp, it wont affect the engine in Speed or so?

Couse on my Racekart, if the Temp is too low, I wont have the full power.

But I dont know if Project Cars is so realistic ^^

[HooksGURU]

Originally posted by 86themadhatter:

Originally posted by nsdewitt:

anitfreeze raises the boiling point btw

That's interesting. I never heard that before. Any idea what it raises it to or is there no fixed temperature?

So you know, the primary substance is ethylene glycol and it is slightly over 220 (roughly 4+C over boiling point) ideally in high performance cars. It is also found in water-cooling solutions for PCs (thermal threshold still the same). I think the first to use it was Feser F1...works good for a while, but man does it ruin water-blocks.

[rudski]

Originally posted by Smurfasaurus Rekt #sagvodafone:

As a rule of thumb:
Boiling or freezing water is never good, ideally lower than 100°C, but higher than 0°C.

Water under pressure boils at a different rate. If you know the PSI the water is under you could figure out the boiling point. At one bar of atmospheric pressure water boils at 100 degree C.