Reducing underhood temperature
#52
06-02-2010, 07:02 PM
Hmmm, my wifes 95 BMW 525i has 189k on the engine. Other than scheduled routine maintenance, all I have done to the engine is recently change the valve cover gasket. It doesn't burn or drip oil and runs like a top. My 97 D1 has recently had a new water pump, head gaskets and master cylinder with 139k, but also runs like a top. Late in the day the hood will burn your hand when you try to open it.
But when they bought LR they tried to enter the 4x4 market and bring LR into the mainstream and make it profitable.
When they did that they cut corners and did studies and then built a 4x4 for their target demographic...soccer moms.
Cool go anywhere looks but with 18" rims to handle those potholes at the end of the cul-de-sac.
Smaller radiator, no CDL, air ride and a kick @ss stereo, everything the safari hunter needs.
#53
06-02-2010, 09:38 PM
Lol
Thats for american cars and truck... These are british...i need one that has the president of LR having me bent over my rig while he F&^cks me in the .... well, you know...
#54
06-02-2010, 09:43 PM
#55
06-03-2010, 12:41 PM
TReK
#56
06-03-2010, 07:12 PM
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here is a really bad mock up...
doesnt look right on light colored trucks...but mines dark green, and since i have every bit of off-road gear...i can make it work....just think of a G4 d2 driving through the jungle...... with that on the hood letting hot air out...
i think it looks better than a cheap carpet vent from home depot
no offense spike
doesnt look right on light colored trucks...but mines dark green, and since i have every bit of off-road gear...i can make it work....just think of a G4 d2 driving through the jungle...... with that on the hood letting hot air out...
i think it looks better than a cheap carpet vent from home depot
no offense spike 
#57
06-03-2010, 10:34 PM
Beats the plastic grills on our trucks
#58
06-08-2010, 10:43 AM
Winching
#59
11-09-2010, 07:42 AM
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Hello from Australia. I just installed an engine temerature alarm. 2002 V8. It sits on about 78 degrees C. Once the car is stopped and the engine turned off, the temperature continues to rise. I would have thought that once the heat source (combustion in the cylinders) is removed, the temp should drop yet it rose to 90 C and the alarm sounded. One of my truck driver mates said "it's the core temperature coming out" the moment I lifted the hood, down it came.
Has anyone got a good explanation as to why the temp rises after the engine is turned off. All I can think is the surface of the engine runs about 12 degrees cooler than the core due to air flow over the engine whilst driving.
Vic
Has anyone got a good explanation as to why the temp rises after the engine is turned off. All I can think is the surface of the engine runs about 12 degrees cooler than the core due to air flow over the engine whilst driving.
Vic
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11-09-2010, 07:48 AM
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