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Old 10-02-2010, 10:57 AM   #130 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ShadeTreeMech View Post
I honestly wouldn't recommend maintaining temps of 250°F, but I would hope holding steady at 200°F would be fine.....is this a bad assumption?
In summer on the Paseo with its full grill block I'm running just over 200F for most of my 21 mile drive.

The only negative here is that the ECU may be retarding timing a little because the engine is hotter than it normally would be. I haven't done any testing to verify this though.
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