Well today after a bit of aggressive driving, my radiator gave up on me after 12 years. On the highway, engine was shut down and i notice the temperature was above normal. My friend was driving my car and he managed to control the car well on a corner and slowly breaking with the hand brake until the side of the road, was worried about the engine, so i checked the engine oil after some time and was happy it looks normal and no MILO colour.. no white smoke at the exhaust as well..
took some time for the car to cool down, poor around 5-8 1.5l mineral bottles near a petrol station nearby.. and than drove to a nearby mechanic.. he took out the old radiator and notice the braket down there had broken.. and told me it cost a around hundred ++ to fix it, so i just told him to change it.. i asked for an aluminum radiator but well, too bad its CNY and all the shops are closed, took us like 20 minutes to look for a mechanic. So he replace it with a wira 1.6 radiator, according to him perdana v6 is using the same one as wira 1.6 and other 1.8 models, i asked my mechanic to double confirm it and went ahead.. after one round, water was starting to leak at the thermostat, it was jammed so just told him to change it.. after that it was alright...
so for now im still unsatisfied with my stock cooling, what can i do to make it better? just spend rm490 to fix all those stuff because i had no options and it was urgent and the place was around 40km away from my hometown. it was around kempas..
so all sifu's here please give me some advice to keep my engine cool, im using a manual tranny so sometimes i do rev high 7-7.5, accidentally went to 8 a couple of time... just for the thrill :D
and another new problem arise after they changed those stuff is my engine a bit hard to start up with air con, probably battery getting weaker.
took some time for the car to cool down, poor around 5-8 1.5l mineral bottles near a petrol station nearby.. and than drove to a nearby mechanic.. he took out the old radiator and notice the braket down there had broken.. and told me it cost a around hundred ++ to fix it, so i just told him to change it.. i asked for an aluminum radiator but well, too bad its CNY and all the shops are closed, took us like 20 minutes to look for a mechanic. So he replace it with a wira 1.6 radiator, according to him perdana v6 is using the same one as wira 1.6 and other 1.8 models, i asked my mechanic to double confirm it and went ahead.. after one round, water was starting to leak at the thermostat, it was jammed so just told him to change it.. after that it was alright...
so for now im still unsatisfied with my stock cooling, what can i do to make it better? just spend rm490 to fix all those stuff because i had no options and it was urgent and the place was around 40km away from my hometown. it was around kempas..
so all sifu's here please give me some advice to keep my engine cool, im using a manual tranny so sometimes i do rev high 7-7.5, accidentally went to 8 a couple of time... just for the thrill :D
and another new problem arise after they changed those stuff is my engine a bit hard to start up with air con, probably battery getting weaker.