AlexLs1

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I drive my car around with the AC on, it stays like 180-185 degrees, driving. The quater mark on the temp gauge to the left of the face/the equilvent of the gas gauge, quarter tank. If you will. The needle stays just shy of there driving around.

Well sitting in traffic the car temp rises for lack of movement of air, or/and other obvious reason.

I was wondering what can I do to prevent this.

I have a 160 stat.

The car is a forged 347, with a heads and cam. (See sig)

It is the stock radiator, I know I'am close to maxing it out, if not doing so, but just due to the summer, the car gets alot hotter than it usually does sitting in traffic.

What could I do to prevent this? LT1 radiator?

ChevyRyda99LS1

Do you have your fan temps set maybe set them to come on earlier

OEM_TA

What you are describing sounds like normal operation. Unless of course the temp is going way up (230 deg +). If it is rising to say in the 200 - 210 range while in stop & go traffic, then cools back down as you move again, that is normal and should not cause you any problems.
If that still bothers you, you can try having the cooling fans set to come on at a lower temp.
Stock fan 1 comes on at 225 and fan 2 at 236. A lot of folks will program theirs to both come on at 175 to 185.

AlexLs1

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Sorry for the late response.

It does bother me a bit, but driving it today it didn't seem to do it. I did beat on the car a bit before seeing the temps go up a bit last week, I guess this was the reason to this. I think I will have my fans come on that little bit earlier to prevent that just incase.

Thank you for your responses guys.

teke184

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stock radiator should be fine for all but the hardest conditions (road racing).

the key is the fan settings.

190 on/185 off would be a good setting for the first fan

maybe 195 on for the 2nd fan...just in case