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1989MKIII 03-07-2005 07:38 PM

well, heres how it started. i bought a 1994 chevy caviailer for $900.00 USD, this cavie had a supercharged 3.1 ltr V6 full body kit, rims, ext. traided that for a 1994 Ford Explore XLT, then that same day traided it for my 1989 Targa Top Turbo MKIII Supra 5-Speed. best traid of my life, that same day, took it to a sponser of my car club, (the car was totaly stock befor i got it) i got turbo back Magnaflow Exaulst done. and K& N custom built cold air kit. but....i have started haveing overheating issuess :angry: , i have tryed everything. i have changed thermastats, radator caps, radator hoses, water pump, all of it. what could it be? please please please let me know. thanks


(sorry my spelling sucks)

justin

hangsupra 03-08-2005 12:26 AM

well....the first thing for overheating problem is to flush the radiator...first...and see how was it....so thats why u spend less $$$ for looking the cause...hope that work...let me know if it work.... :D

1989MKIII 03-08-2005 01:42 AM

well i have tryed that and it didnt do anything for it. it ran a little cooler for a short peried of time. but outher then that it didnt help. but thanks to some outher threds in this forum, i think i have a lead on it. i have noticed i dont have heat, also that my HCV (heater control valve) is not opening. so i am going to bypass that and see if it helps. once i do that i am going to see. if that helps i will let yall know for anyone in the futer so that they will know. thanks for your info so quick.

justin
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87supraguy 03-08-2005 08:36 AM

i dont think your car would over heat do to the HCV my was broken for about a week and i had no problems with it over heating until after i did the bypass. when you do the bypass id sugggest going with some new heater tube clamps cause when i did mine the factory clamps didnt fit tight enough and i kept leaking colant all over till i bought new ones. for the over heating problem itself have you check if you Head gasket is blown? Thats a common problem with the supras

1989MKIII 03-08-2005 04:45 PM

:o no i havent tought about BHG, but that isnt something i wanted to hear. does anyone know where i can get a good one. and how mutch were talking about for one. i defently want meadtle caz i plain on HIGH boost and High HP. my goal for this car is a full body pump Gass 11 sec 1/4 mile 7m-gte! but anyway..thanks for your info, and let me know asap. thanks


justin

suprra_girl 03-14-2005 08:26 AM

check out the "my car is overheating" in the faq's... and yes a head gasket is a possibility :(

have you burped the cooling system yet?

if you are planning on high hp i would suggest a metal head gasket with arp head studs and get your block and head machined as close to single digit RA numbers as possible... the mhg will rely on a perfect finish

good luck :)

Karpediem 03-15-2005 09:46 PM

WellI had the same problem---believe it or not I traced it to the Rad.fan--it has a cooling off and on switch in it and when I replaced the fan the overheating stopped---hope this helps

hangsupra 03-17-2005 12:21 AM

oh one thing i forgot to m.ntion... you need to check your radiater to see if the antifreeze n the water were equal tho...if you have water more than the antifreeze....n little of antifreeze than that can be a problem too...to check if you have a bhg is to open your oil cap n look under the cap or the head valve cover to see if you see any lightbrown or yellingbrown color tho...if there were this color than u were in bid trouble...cause you did bhg tho...so yeah....hope this help too.... :D


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