G'day,
I recently brought an R32 off of a friend of mine and have now had it for just a week. Its an awesome car seeing as my last car was a 1977 torana (not that there was anything wrong with that car) but this has a lot more power and is a lot more newer which is good.
It has some mod’s being boost controller running the turbo at 1 bar, air/fuel controller, intercooler, turbo back exhaust, turbo timer and air filter.
I’ve was driving it around a fair bit but a few days ago i found that after driving it for a bit and returning home, the overflow bottle was bubbling and the car was pumping out a fair bit of heat. I just thought that because I had been driving it for a bit it might have gotten hot so I left it running for a few minutes to cool then shut it down. However the next day diving to a mates not driving hard, it did the same thing. I have since been to the mechanics and he replaced the thermostat and the Fan coupling and pressure tested the radiator thinking that being the problem but after driving it today and only pushing the car a little the temp gauge started to rise to the high. I backed off and let it cool and it did settling at the half way point and not moving too much from there only if I pushed it a little it would slowly start to climb again.
Apart from doing a coolant change im pretty stuck on what the problem is. I have thought of getting the boost turned down as that too might have been the problem.
I was just going to see if this might be a problem or people with similar moded cars were having similar problems?
I haven’t owned a car like this before so I am uncertain on what is and isn’t normal so any feed back would be much appreciated.
Cheers
-BD
