When I had the florescent dye put in my cooling system we watched it distribute and in just a few minutes it was coming back through the top return hose.
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On my way home from work, I set my heater on max and my fan on 2 (out of 4 settings) with recirculate off. I took a video of my temp gauge that was just over 10 minutes long on my phone until it filled up my SD card so I could plot the numbers when I got home. The results are pretty interesting.
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I started at 34 degrees F 45 seconds into the video. Ambient temp was 23 degrees, although I'm not sure why there was that discrepancy. The road was 45 mph speed limit in-town driving with stop lights regularly placed. I had to stop at a few.
At 95 degrees, I turned my fan speed up to the 3rd setting. At 6:30, I hit stop and go traffic.
For the next nearly 4 minutes, my car never went past 136 degrees F, although I did start picking up a bit of speed (steady in 2nd gear at 5-8mph, about 1000-1200RPM) at 8:30. My speed never exceeded 140 degrees until several minutes later when the traffic cleared up and I started gaining speed.
What I realized is that this product only helps your car warm up faster if your heater is off or if your engine is inefficient enough to not be affected by the heater core's transfer of heat. During this whole time though, I wasn't cold. In fact, by around 4:00 I started feeling warm air through the vents, and by 5:30 I was getting comfortable and took my leather gloves off. By the end of the recording, my temp gauge needle was right on the first small hash mark past "C", but I wasn't freezing my butt off.
If I had run recirculate mode on like I usually do, I would have been pretty toasty by then, but I wanted to see what would happen under those specific conditions.
I started at 34 degrees F 45 seconds into the video. Ambient temp was 23 degrees, although I'm not sure why there was that discrepancy. The road was 45 mph speed limit in-town driving with stop lights regularly placed. I had to stop at a few.
At 95 degrees, I turned my fan speed up to the 3rd setting. At 6:30, I hit stop and go traffic.
For the next nearly 4 minutes, my car never went past 136 degrees F, although I did start picking up a bit of speed (steady in 2nd gear at 5-8mph, about 1000-1200RPM) at 8:30. My speed never exceeded 140 degrees until several minutes later when the traffic cleared up and I started gaining speed.
What I realized is that this product only helps your car warm up faster if your heater is off or if your engine is inefficient enough to not be affected by the heater core's transfer of heat. During this whole time though, I wasn't cold. In fact, by around 4:00 I started feeling warm air through the vents, and by 5:30 I was getting comfortable and took my leather gloves off. By the end of the recording, my temp gauge needle was right on the first small hash mark past "C", but I wasn't freezing my butt off.
If I had run recirculate mode on like I usually do, I would have been pretty toasty by then, but I wanted to see what would happen under those specific conditions.
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