Ok, so after fixing the headgasket, replacing everything in my cooling system, I'm still overheating. So let's start with the basics:
M30B34.5
E28 535i Radiator
OEM Water Pump
SPAL 16" Pusher Fan (2700cfm)
87deg Thermostat
100% Water
B35 Thermostat Housing
B35 Coolant Block Off plate (back of cyl head)
Late model e30 overflow tank
No Water Wetter
No heater core
The Symptoms:
The car idles and barely holds temperature. It warms up to 175deg F, and after a while the temperature starts to climb (about 2-3deg/min) on a hot FL summer day. It'll keep creeping it up all the way to 190 where the water starts to boil and I shut the car off. Driving the car around the block the car holds temperature fine, surely because now it's getting quite a bit of airflow through the radiator, which is help cooling it down.
Now, before anyone points me to this link: http://www.mye28.com/viewtopic.php?t=58368
Been there, done that. Also have tried to bleed the car at a steep 30 degree ramp and still nothing better.
My guess right now are coming down to the routing of the radiator hoses. After speaking to Otis (Good & Tight), he seems to think that it's the fact that I used a coolant block off plate from the B35 on my B34 head. This is the piece at the back of the head that would go to the heater in the e28. Otis' suggestion was that the fact that I blocked off that water passage is interfering with how the water flows and therefore is causing to overheat.
He also thinks my radiator hoses could be misrouted, but I have a hard time seeing how that is possible
I'm curious to know if anyone with an M30B34.5 setup here could share their inputs as to their coolant setup. Or if anyone has any good ideas, I'm all ears.
Not fixing this will surely cause my headgasket to go again, and I'm not ready to see that happen just yet, so this thread must live on until I can sort this overheating issue out.
Thanks,
E
M30B34.5
E28 535i Radiator
OEM Water Pump
SPAL 16" Pusher Fan (2700cfm)
87deg Thermostat
100% Water
B35 Thermostat Housing
B35 Coolant Block Off plate (back of cyl head)
Late model e30 overflow tank
No Water Wetter
No heater core
The Symptoms:
The car idles and barely holds temperature. It warms up to 175deg F, and after a while the temperature starts to climb (about 2-3deg/min) on a hot FL summer day. It'll keep creeping it up all the way to 190 where the water starts to boil and I shut the car off. Driving the car around the block the car holds temperature fine, surely because now it's getting quite a bit of airflow through the radiator, which is help cooling it down.
Now, before anyone points me to this link: http://www.mye28.com/viewtopic.php?t=58368
Been there, done that. Also have tried to bleed the car at a steep 30 degree ramp and still nothing better.
My guess right now are coming down to the routing of the radiator hoses. After speaking to Otis (Good & Tight), he seems to think that it's the fact that I used a coolant block off plate from the B35 on my B34 head. This is the piece at the back of the head that would go to the heater in the e28. Otis' suggestion was that the fact that I blocked off that water passage is interfering with how the water flows and therefore is causing to overheat.
He also thinks my radiator hoses could be misrouted, but I have a hard time seeing how that is possible
I'm curious to know if anyone with an M30B34.5 setup here could share their inputs as to their coolant setup. Or if anyone has any good ideas, I'm all ears.
Not fixing this will surely cause my headgasket to go again, and I'm not ready to see that happen just yet, so this thread must live on until I can sort this overheating issue out.
Thanks,
E
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