varanus
Enthusiast
H E E E L L P . . . .I\'m melting!
Today I went out for a cruise to the beach in my 97 gts and the car interior was HOT! Temperature ranged from 70 to 80 degrees outside and it was sunny. With all the windows down it was tolerable the first half of the day. If I rolled the windows up and used the ac it was worse. Cabin got hotter.
When I got to the beach it was about 70 to 75 degrees and I got stuck in some traffic for 15 minutes. The car got really hot although the temp gauge stayed in the zone at the mark slightly right of the 190, so the engine was within normal temp I think.. While stuck in traffic a buddy behind me tells me my car might be on fire! Well it's not on fire, just the right side sill overheating. I look at the sill and smoke is eminating from the paint (which has burned by the hi temp of the cat-big ugly brown spot on the blue sill) I can smell plastic burning
I have the roe blower with hi flow cats and I have posted before on the #10 cylinder running really rich at idle which gets the right side cat much hotter than the left.
When I finally get out of the traffic I pour water onto the sill to cool it off and the water just sizzles. I notice that the plastic plugs that cover the access holes to the bolts that you take out to remove the sill have started to melt.
After a bit I am on my way and heading towards home. Temp is running right at the 190 or slightly left or right of it on my gauge as I drive the freeway. It is still bloody hot and I am sweating.
Later that night about 7 pm I am cruising with another friend and it is about 75 degrees outside. He has never been in my car since the sc install and we are just crusing the streets with no long idle times except stop lights. We are both soaked in wet sweaty shirts and I can smell the side sill running really hot-but no smoke although at a gas station I pour more water on the sill and it sizzles. Both footwells are easily 30 degrees hotter than the outside temp and I can feel heat emanating from the dash area near the radio. Again the temp gauge is at the 190 mark or slightly right of it mark.. The only relief we had was driving on the freeway when we stuck out arms out the windows to deflect air in. Still the cabin was easily 15 degrees or so warmer than outside and way worse in the footwell areas and the dash. While he was impressed with the speed of the roe blower, he said he would never ride in my car again until winter because his shirt was soaked with sweat and it was just to darn uncomfortable.
My questions to you all are:
1. Do you have this much heat to a point that the ac is totally worthless? My car has always been warm even before the sc. Now it is so unbearible I don't want to drive the car anymore. In the winter I usually have the window down even if it's cold outside.
2. Have any of you done anything to insulate the car from heat? I have followed posts about side sill insulation, cutting a hole on the drivers side grill etc?
I suspect a large amount of heat is from the side sills. I am thinking of using some kind of heat barrier to line the sills. Also to loosely wrap the entire length of the exhaust including the cats with a heat shielding material. I think this would cool the interior along with preventing further paint damage to the right sill, but would it destroy the cat?
3. Where do you supose the heat is from on the dash? Could it be the stereo deck. The cds when ejected are quite hot.
4. Just running the vents with air (not ac) the air is hotter than ambient air outside.
Should I wrap the air box (for the ventilation system) in a heat shield material?
Any suggestions are appreciated. Along with the roe sc I have headers, hi flow cats, and a corsa 3" catback. Spending multiple thousands on an insulation kit seems unreasonable for me to have to enjoy my snake any other time than winter.
Today I went out for a cruise to the beach in my 97 gts and the car interior was HOT! Temperature ranged from 70 to 80 degrees outside and it was sunny. With all the windows down it was tolerable the first half of the day. If I rolled the windows up and used the ac it was worse. Cabin got hotter.
When I got to the beach it was about 70 to 75 degrees and I got stuck in some traffic for 15 minutes. The car got really hot although the temp gauge stayed in the zone at the mark slightly right of the 190, so the engine was within normal temp I think.. While stuck in traffic a buddy behind me tells me my car might be on fire! Well it's not on fire, just the right side sill overheating. I look at the sill and smoke is eminating from the paint (which has burned by the hi temp of the cat-big ugly brown spot on the blue sill) I can smell plastic burning
I have the roe blower with hi flow cats and I have posted before on the #10 cylinder running really rich at idle which gets the right side cat much hotter than the left.
When I finally get out of the traffic I pour water onto the sill to cool it off and the water just sizzles. I notice that the plastic plugs that cover the access holes to the bolts that you take out to remove the sill have started to melt.
After a bit I am on my way and heading towards home. Temp is running right at the 190 or slightly left or right of it on my gauge as I drive the freeway. It is still bloody hot and I am sweating.
Later that night about 7 pm I am cruising with another friend and it is about 75 degrees outside. He has never been in my car since the sc install and we are just crusing the streets with no long idle times except stop lights. We are both soaked in wet sweaty shirts and I can smell the side sill running really hot-but no smoke although at a gas station I pour more water on the sill and it sizzles. Both footwells are easily 30 degrees hotter than the outside temp and I can feel heat emanating from the dash area near the radio. Again the temp gauge is at the 190 mark or slightly right of it mark.. The only relief we had was driving on the freeway when we stuck out arms out the windows to deflect air in. Still the cabin was easily 15 degrees or so warmer than outside and way worse in the footwell areas and the dash. While he was impressed with the speed of the roe blower, he said he would never ride in my car again until winter because his shirt was soaked with sweat and it was just to darn uncomfortable.
My questions to you all are:
1. Do you have this much heat to a point that the ac is totally worthless? My car has always been warm even before the sc. Now it is so unbearible I don't want to drive the car anymore. In the winter I usually have the window down even if it's cold outside.
2. Have any of you done anything to insulate the car from heat? I have followed posts about side sill insulation, cutting a hole on the drivers side grill etc?
I suspect a large amount of heat is from the side sills. I am thinking of using some kind of heat barrier to line the sills. Also to loosely wrap the entire length of the exhaust including the cats with a heat shielding material. I think this would cool the interior along with preventing further paint damage to the right sill, but would it destroy the cat?
3. Where do you supose the heat is from on the dash? Could it be the stereo deck. The cds when ejected are quite hot.
4. Just running the vents with air (not ac) the air is hotter than ambient air outside.
Should I wrap the air box (for the ventilation system) in a heat shield material?
Any suggestions are appreciated. Along with the roe sc I have headers, hi flow cats, and a corsa 3" catback. Spending multiple thousands on an insulation kit seems unreasonable for me to have to enjoy my snake any other time than winter.
- heat sheilding might be your only option, although it seems entirely unreasonable. I initially looked to see if you did have hi-flows thinking that should help a little. Maybe you need Vipermed's hood to release some of that underhood heat.
