Hello everyone. This GSX is relatively new to me. I just got it not long ago, and have had a few issues with it, which I have made topics about those. Anywho, this one is still outstanding. Here is my story.
I was driving it home from buying it, and popped the hood at a rest area and noticed the AC fan was getting hot enough that it was starting to melt...I turned the AC on so that it would spin for the rest of the way home.
I bought a new fan, and was going to buy a heat guard, but they are hard to find. Someone mentioned a manifold blanket, but they are 100 bucks for basically heat wrap. I am missing both heat guards.
I went out last weekend, bought some header wrap and wrapped my manifold. I also had some thin metal, and spent some time making my own heat guard for the top of the intake, then painting it with 1500* paint.
I ran out of time that night, so I only got the top portion of it done in header wrap. I went ahead and went out for a drive anyway to see if there was a difference. I drove it for a bit, got it up to temp, got on it a little into boost, then came back to the house. I then popped the hood and seemed like it was cooler up top, but everything else was still smoking hot...Almost burned myself on the hood prop, radiator felt really hot as well.
The next morning I went out and finished wrapping by the o2 sensor. I did not make a heat guard for the bottom. As I was wrapping it, and got underneath the car, I heard a bit of a rattle. I look under the motor, and see a bunch of header wrap with about 5 hose clamps, and 2 of them were loose. I thought hmm...So I wiggled it again, and I could tell the the exhaust how it was connected was loose...So I go down the road to an auto shop that I have access too. I put it up on the lift and pull the hose clamps off down there and unwrap the heat wrap. Looks like previous owner cut the cat off, and put some flex pipe in place of it. The flex pipe split in haf like someone cut it or something, and looks like he had wrapped it with header wrap in order to sell it.
Not to mention that it had seemed like there was an exhaust leak...So I called the local exhaust shop whom I know personally, and it is getting fixed tomorrow. I have not really drove it to know if the header wrap by the o2 sensor made a difference on the heat in the engine bay. I am afraid to put this new AC fan on, as I believe it will melt it. The temps here aren't even hot yet, its been 60's-80s and its already getting this hot. This heat issue has me concerned because I don't want to be fighting with a cooling issue due to it running lean or something as I don't know enough about turbo'd cars.
The car itself is in good shape for its age with low miles for its age, I would hate to get rid of it, but I don't want to continually sink money in it either.
I do know that turbo cars will get much hotter than a N/A car, but still.:dunno::tat:
I was driving it home from buying it, and popped the hood at a rest area and noticed the AC fan was getting hot enough that it was starting to melt...I turned the AC on so that it would spin for the rest of the way home.
I bought a new fan, and was going to buy a heat guard, but they are hard to find. Someone mentioned a manifold blanket, but they are 100 bucks for basically heat wrap. I am missing both heat guards.
I went out last weekend, bought some header wrap and wrapped my manifold. I also had some thin metal, and spent some time making my own heat guard for the top of the intake, then painting it with 1500* paint.
I ran out of time that night, so I only got the top portion of it done in header wrap. I went ahead and went out for a drive anyway to see if there was a difference. I drove it for a bit, got it up to temp, got on it a little into boost, then came back to the house. I then popped the hood and seemed like it was cooler up top, but everything else was still smoking hot...Almost burned myself on the hood prop, radiator felt really hot as well.
The next morning I went out and finished wrapping by the o2 sensor. I did not make a heat guard for the bottom. As I was wrapping it, and got underneath the car, I heard a bit of a rattle. I look under the motor, and see a bunch of header wrap with about 5 hose clamps, and 2 of them were loose. I thought hmm...So I wiggled it again, and I could tell the the exhaust how it was connected was loose...So I go down the road to an auto shop that I have access too. I put it up on the lift and pull the hose clamps off down there and unwrap the heat wrap. Looks like previous owner cut the cat off, and put some flex pipe in place of it. The flex pipe split in haf like someone cut it or something, and looks like he had wrapped it with header wrap in order to sell it.
Not to mention that it had seemed like there was an exhaust leak...So I called the local exhaust shop whom I know personally, and it is getting fixed tomorrow. I have not really drove it to know if the header wrap by the o2 sensor made a difference on the heat in the engine bay. I am afraid to put this new AC fan on, as I believe it will melt it. The temps here aren't even hot yet, its been 60's-80s and its already getting this hot. This heat issue has me concerned because I don't want to be fighting with a cooling issue due to it running lean or something as I don't know enough about turbo'd cars.
The car itself is in good shape for its age with low miles for its age, I would hate to get rid of it, but I don't want to continually sink money in it either.
I do know that turbo cars will get much hotter than a N/A car, but still.:dunno::tat:
