bucket horder
What solutions have you all come up with to deal with over heating issues?
What coolant have you all found to be the best in buckets?
What oil viscosity has been found the best in buckets?
The reason I am asking as I am running into a few issues with my bucket over heating and before I start changing things I wanted to get some input from gurus such as yourselves.
Yes 4 strokes are for homos. Homo-sapiens that is, who have realized bigger is better.
Who You Calling a Pig
What engine are you running?
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Originally Posted by Yow Ling
bucket horder
I am running a CBR125 bottom end with a CBR150 top end and a motogp racing exhaust.
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I beleive an oil cooler may be the trick...and although I searched CBR125 and Oil Cooler and found a lot of hits....I found nothing bolt on..If you can find a place to plumb it it, it would be the way to go.
Use a synthetic oil...beter high temp stability and a gnats dick less friction....a lower internal traction than mineral oils
bucket horder
What do you think of running 20w50 synthetic oil and 30% distilled water to 70% water wetter?
The last time I looked at the running temp of the bike problems started developing when the bottom end reached 104 deg C.
Hardcore Biker
Cooking oils should do the trick. I've put that in the pan a few times and it survives pretty well. Engine shouldn't be as hot as the pan.
Get rid of the coolant and weld some cooling fins on. The water cooling craze is a bit retro now.
If that fails you could just drop down to B Grade.
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Possibly stick with the OEM10W40...At leat I beleive that is the recomendation....But because you do do not race in very cold weather....if you have 20W50 ot should be fine...it will contribute slightly to higher temp because of the higher viscosity (More friction)
Re coolant I am not familiar with water wetter....50%water and 50% organic glycol mix should lift the boil point sufficiently.
Forum whore
You're havin' a laugh, right???Get rid of the coolant and weld some cooling fins on. The water cooling craze is a bit retro now.
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bucket horder
I'm running 10W40 at the moment. Hence wanting to try a different oil. Water wetter is the non-slippery coolant that is allowed to be used on race tracks.
Bucket Racer/Crasher
It's blardy hard to believe that a watercooled 4-stroke is overheating. Last I checked water wetter actually conducted less heat than plain old water. A good synthetic oil will handle all sorts of heat for a time. I always ran Mobil1 in my turbo McIntosh though there "should" be something better out there now but how you'd tell I don't know. It was a Castrol engineer who actually said I should use the Mobil1.
Is there some problem with the cooling system like partially blocked radiator core?
Royal Enfield user
you're not running it to lean by any chance?
Stephen
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No8 Wire Extraordinaire
CBR 125 with 150 top end.
hope you've changed the jetting & timing to cope with those changes.
time to dig out a carby,
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Highway Biker
I find in excess of 200km/h is the best way to control temperature.
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Forum whore
thats had with so many corner in the way
bet your aprilla coundn't do half that sort of speed at Mt Welly
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we could sell tickets to watch him try . . .
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