dumb overheating AGAIN

[lolcantturn]

Its called heat soak. All engines do it .

Oh I was unaware. Hmm...Is this..bad?

[LJ851]

Not bad, perfectly normal. When your engine is running , your functioning , circulating cooling system is constantly removing the heat generated by the engine. When you turn off the engine the cooling system not functioning (well barely) so all the heat energy stored in the metal of the engine "soaks" into the coolant raising its temp until they are equal and then the temp will start to go down.

[lolcantturn]

Well I kind of have another problem now..but I'm sure it's related to my original overheating

So I drove my E30 around and I noticed that with the heat on blast and I'm on idle sitting at a light, the heat is actually cold..then when I'm driving in gear, it gets warm. Warm, but not hot, just "acceptable" for this weather.

Hmmmm? I checked in the Bentley but that doesn't seem to have helped.

[lolcantturn]

Sorry for the double (well, triple post), but just to clarify my previous post, I know it's not related to the heatercore or valve in any way because when I had a faulty coolant temp sensor that made it read cold, my heat was still pretty freaking hot.

[lolcantturn]

No, nothing? I'm starting to think it's a faulty thermostat.. but I just got a new thermostat. Grrr.