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brucepick · 10-17-2012, 03:25 PM

Nice work!

As for temperature and lean burn, I haven't seen any issues getting or keeping Lean burn up to about 202-204 deg F. Very little experience hotter than that due to tstat was 172 deg until yesterday.

Now running a 180 deg tstat and engine temp is mostly around 190-195. Pretty sure my car needs its grill block to achieve that in winter. When driving without it a couple winters ago, it would only get up to about 175.

10-17-2012, 03:25 PM	#80 (permalink)
brucepick OCD Master EcoModder Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Eastern CT, USA Posts: 1,936 Outasight - '00 Honda Insight Team Honda Gen-1 Insights 90 day: 54.18 mpg (US) Thanks: 431 Thanked 396 Times in 264 Posts	Nice work! As for temperature and lean burn, I haven't seen any issues getting or keeping Lean burn up to about 202-204 deg F. Very little experience hotter than that due to tstat was 172 deg until yesterday. Now running a 180 deg tstat and engine temp is mostly around 190-195. Pretty sure my car needs its grill block to achieve that in winter. When driving without it a couple winters ago, it would only get up to about 175. __________________ Coast long and prosper. Driving '00 Honda Insight, acquired Feb 2016. Last edited by brucepick; 10-19-2012 at 03:48 PM..