Aug 18, 2006 7:26:24 PM
- KiwiCanuck
- Co-Pilot
- Loc: Canada
- Posts: 210, Gallery
- Registered on: Sep 14, 2005
oil-pressure/overheating/oil rads
Colleagues,
Do you all carefully and regularly remove all the bugs piling up in front of your oil-rads? Yes, I remember the 'bird in the inlet cavity' thread, but I did not read anything beyond that 1 st memo....and I was cleaning things---
Until last month, my 16th with the 997 C2, I have reached in and wiped off the bugs from the rads (front-left and right), not easy with a typical man's arm, leaving them to drop out at the bottom of the cavity ----helping occasionaly with a stream of water----looked OK, as water poured out again from underneath, with bits of insects ( small bits I note now).
A few weeks ago the oil temps moved from their usual 105, once warmed and working strongly, to a regular 110----and stayed high during slow urban traffic---Odd---hot days?
Lat week I peered into the 'cavity' and with a flahlight found a long pile of insectt bodies---moths, bees, garss-hoppers----effectivle covering the long and thin strip of oil rad. 30 minutes later, after struggling to pick up all the bodies, along with much water-jetting, it was clean. The gaps that allow water to drain, and insect wings to drop out, do NOT allow good sized Canadian insects to leave that space.
Temps back down to 105, and 100 in traffic with the fans doing the cooling well....NOW.
So, even if the 'bird' thread said all of that, this is to encourage the rest of us. Is PAG asleep? Are German insects all mosquitos?
This is a complete absence of engineering or thought in design. Oil overheating---oil breakdwow, engine issues, RMS?!
In all other ways the C2 is marvellous ---- especially now the breathing is enhanced with Fabspeed headers, sports exahust, and BMC airlfilter ---it now sounds much more like a strong sports car and not a GT, and properly replaces the much loved 1996 NSX.
BUGS!!
KiwiCanuck
Do you all carefully and regularly remove all the bugs piling up in front of your oil-rads? Yes, I remember the 'bird in the inlet cavity' thread, but I did not read anything beyond that 1 st memo....and I was cleaning things---
Until last month, my 16th with the 997 C2, I have reached in and wiped off the bugs from the rads (front-left and right), not easy with a typical man's arm, leaving them to drop out at the bottom of the cavity ----helping occasionaly with a stream of water----looked OK, as water poured out again from underneath, with bits of insects ( small bits I note now).
A few weeks ago the oil temps moved from their usual 105, once warmed and working strongly, to a regular 110----and stayed high during slow urban traffic---Odd---hot days?
Lat week I peered into the 'cavity' and with a flahlight found a long pile of insectt bodies---moths, bees, garss-hoppers----effectivle covering the long and thin strip of oil rad. 30 minutes later, after struggling to pick up all the bodies, along with much water-jetting, it was clean. The gaps that allow water to drain, and insect wings to drop out, do NOT allow good sized Canadian insects to leave that space.
Temps back down to 105, and 100 in traffic with the fans doing the cooling well....NOW.
So, even if the 'bird' thread said all of that, this is to encourage the rest of us. Is PAG asleep? Are German insects all mosquitos?
This is a complete absence of engineering or thought in design. Oil overheating---oil breakdwow, engine issues, RMS?!
In all other ways the C2 is marvellous ---- especially now the breathing is enhanced with Fabspeed headers, sports exahust, and BMC airlfilter ---it now sounds much more like a strong sports car and not a GT, and properly replaces the much loved 1996 NSX.
BUGS!!
KiwiCanuck