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Quick update. Yesterday was opening day. Was planning to get both cars to the track but the weather has put me behind. I have to disclose that weather the last few weeks was my fault. All of the snow and ice started the moment I put a set of street tires on the car to road test it. So that never happened but I figured I would test it yesterday so left the streets on and headed down to the track.
Items I had mess with.
Replaced the belly pan
Sealed off the top of the radiator
Moved the DCT cooler to the front of the radiator
Overfilled DCT by 3/4 quart
Reflashed the car
Installed the fan
Sketchy part is my plumbing for the DCT cooler required me to align the hose clamps so I could use the indentation of the crank pulley for clearance. I might revisit this during summer break and run the aftermarket fitting on the trans that allows you to run an hoses. Gives me a bit more options when running the hose. I am running the hot side into the heat exchanger and then up to the aftermarket cooler versus the other way around.
We have boost! I don't now which item fixed it but putting the fan back in did remove a code that code put the car in reduced throttle.
Few weeks back I woke up in the middle of the night and it came to me that when I flashed the car with the MHD software I limited the throttle in 1-3 gear! DUH! I did this because I had not ever driven the car at full throttle and had no idea of what the lag or torque would be like and .......forgot about it as I got distracted but the high temps. So excited about remembering that I woke my wife up to tell her! She's still pissed about that.
Temps, much better. After sealing off the top of the radiator completely I came off a full out session where I did the passing and no one ran us down and the car was about 180 when we got back and parked. Last time out it was similar temps and I had to run the heater to keep the car under 230.
Two new lights on the dash. Brake and I get the car on lift signal. A little research and the brake could be triggered by milage as I think there is a 30000 mile trigger. No worries as pads and fluids are new and res is full. No leaks firm pedal. I also removed the pad sensor wires to could be something there. Lift light refers to suspension? Guessing that was caused but the sensors not hooked up on the ride height and the headlights unplugged. Have 5 days coming up starting on the 6th and will get to look into it a little more but right now much happier than I have been with this car since some of these self inflected issue came about.
Last edited by Cobra1956; 03-01-2026 at 11:05 AM..
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