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does make sense but surely after a 1 hour blast down the m25 sitting at 70 should get the therostat open and keep the temps up and water circulating ? in my skyline i didnt have a thermostat and would be the opposite, cooler air would blow out when on the motorway as the cooling system would be getting more air and keeping things cool then as i slowed down and had less air coming in the heating would before hot... that makes sense but the 350 doesnt

yeah its crazy how small the rad's are. And i can see why there is such an issue with fan failure as they must be on alot of the time. still getting random over heating issues and hot and cold air being blown through. I have started another thread trying to work out wats wrong before i set fire to the bloody thing lol

cheers for the help guys and gals forgot to say that its only been doing this since the rad change yesterday, before that its never done the cold air whilst stationary before. Seeing as the rad is so much bigger and the water pump us chain driven could the extra volume of water be putting a strain on it when its on idle ???

not sure. need to take it out and stick it in a pan on the stove to see if its working. Its just random that its getting hot when driving let cold when not and its not like it graduallt gets old it literally takes a couple seconds after going for 60 to parks. Its almost like the water pump is only working when the rear wheels are moving fast ?!!?!?!?

Right im stuck and about to take the z apart and scrap it. Little long as im trying ti explain all the issues as and when they happen and gettign as much detail as possible. bought car off a **** that talked alot of @*!# and found out the fans werent working and as a result it over heated pretty well on the way home ( over flow jetting water out, lots of loud vibration sounds from rad, steam and lots of it etc etc). Evidence that its done it before as water was clean and clear with no hint of anti freeze in it so no idea how many times its done it and how badly. Anyway i decided to get an uprated Alloy rad and twin 12" electric fans ( worked very very well in my drift car). Rad is about 6 1/2 times the thickness of the stock rad so its a monster, Fans were hard wired on to a switch so i can turn them on and off as i want. Everything put back together, no leaks , fans work etc etc so all good. Problem is when idling and not moving the temp can be just below half and the heating is pumping out cold air, even when crusing around about 10-25 mph its still cold. Get the car up to 40+ and it gets warmer and the faster you go the hotter it gets. The engine temp stays just below middle on a run with or with out the fans on and when idling for 25 mins stationary without the fans on the temp got to about half maybe just over, fans get turned on and it stays at half. Now sometimes if im on the mway its fine, temp is normal, heating is hot and as im coming off in to residentual parts i flick the fans, heating still hot and as i start to slow down i can feel the heating getting cooler, then it goes ice cold and the temp goes high very quickly even with the fans on ( about 3/4 at least but never over the hot mark ) yet if i start the car from cold leave it for 30-40 mins the air is always cold and the temp doesnt go over half even with fans off. We ( meanign myself and DriftMoto, mates garage ) had bled the system about 8 times now in varius ways that we found all over the internet - fill with water - fill with water with bleed valve open - fill with front of car jacked up in air - filled with front jacked up, engine on, bleed valve off and constant stream of water - filled with front jacked up, engine off, bleed valve off and very very slowly pouring water in to system until over flowing from bleed valve and then drop car down and top up at rad - all the above done hot and cold, over flow full and empty ( no idea how this would make a difference but it seems the americans recon u have to have it full !!!?!?!?!?!? ) today i drove it and just undid the bleed valve and some air came out but after that it will get warm on idle then go cold a few minates later Now im thinking its either STILL air in the system but cant see it taking/being this hard to get rid of it would a dodgy thermostat and/or water pump give these symptoms Regarding if its a possible HG issue i can confirm 99% correct that its not using water, no smoke on idle, no smoke on start up or driving, no sludge in the rad cap and the system isnt getting pressureized so ?????????????????????????? im so stuck and fed up

right new setup in and working but still having issues cant believe just how thin and USELESS the stock rad is !!! The rad ins my 520i e34 bmw was 3 times as thick with an engine almost half the size. My new rad is 6 1/2 times thicker

ahhh couldnt be assed to wait and then go out and measure so i bought a generic "racing" alli rad with twin 12" rans . Should be fitted in tuesday on a thermostatic fan controller. Same setup i used in my R32 drift car so should work well i hope :S

I would but it's still close to 400 quid where as the aftermaket stuff would clot me Half that fitted and would be so much more efficient

Anyone ???

Sorry If this is a common ask but I did a few searches and couldn't find anything. What are the size of the stock fans on 350's ? Mine aren't workin so looking for a cheap replacement and tbh I'm thinking an alli rad and twin 12"/14" fans on a thermostatic controller ( all that is less than one fan motor from Nissan !!! ) I've used this set up on my skid car and worked bloody well but I had alot more space due to a Frankenstein creation lol So are they 10 11 12 14 ??? etc Thanks in advance Edit - I would go measure but I'm away from the car for the next week

another thing i would like is the central cubby hole below the 3 gauges. Mines justy empty and as i have a double din unit below i would like something like this hope Lum doesnt mind me stealing a pic from this thread viewtopic.php?f=56&t=53995 so an extra link might make up for it. If tis a problem let me know http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u43/ ... G_0955.jpg

Doc i havent been follow BDC tbh. I only know that Matt is doing well and polo is STILL blowing up gearboxes

thanks bronzee

i might do Crumb but tbh there so many new faces this season and i havent been to any races due to work and other things. You know the team name ?

Def not going wild with the Z as been there done that. I find that Z's are perfect and don't need bodykits or anything like that. I'll be slamming it on it's belly, 19's at least 10j wide and some More power with a 2 way diff. The smash it up good at mallory lol

Yeah bought it as a non running r32 of a mate about 4 yrs ago then had it White and black with an rb20, then put an sr20 in it, stripped it, put the kit on it and painted it green lol. Then went to town on it Savin weight then got bored after 09 season stripped It, lost more weight, added more power, put a Bee R324 kit on it then did well then got smashed lol

Different car, the green one turned in to the grey r34 fronted one then it got banana'd after getting T boned at lydden hill

Doc that was actually at claypigeon somewhere down south i think. I miss lydd so bad `

Think that's would do for now. Far to many to list and far to many pos's inbetween lol

As requested in no specific order lol I've had alot of cars in the last 11 yrs. These were the ones modded to drift, some for fun, some sleeper, some competition spec and some lifestyler spec lol

I maybe wrong but I think tht 2fast shop is japspeed. I know they have a few shops under different names on eBay selling the same stuff

I must warn up it's stupidly addictive an more expensive than having a drugs and hooker addiction just usually without the happy ending

Lol there lots of " drift racers " around. I'll be using this for play play skid days at mallory park. I use to drive for team green in bdc but after a decent accident which knocked me out but I finished 7th overall after only doing 3 of the 5 rounds last year. Still sort of in team green jut don't compete and can't go to rounds due to work

Yeah I should have dug more but he drove fri Falkirk to Manchester to do a deal lay week but my old corolla it out before the deal so he drove back to Falkirk then drove to Liverpool Saturday. I asked him twice if it had an issues with over d heating, using excess oil, loosing water , clutch issues and he said it was perfect. Got there car was fine was fine driving back apart from some lol things which didn't really mind until I stopped and boom I figured it was a relatively new car so didn't think to do the usual checks but ya kinda don't when it's managed a 240 mile journey and got there ok