Weather gets too cold for you to get the basic spacer...

 

What?!?

The basic spacer is fine in all weather. This does not include the coolant bypass so everything is the same...

 

Wtf is the diff between a basic and non? lol

Tim it gets to negative degrees here in the winter.

 

The isothermal uses a valve on the coolant line that runs to the throttle body. You turn it off in the summer to keep the plenum and TB cooler and turn it back on in the winter to help stop the TB from freezing. Any of them can be used in any climate.

The basic is just the spacer. There are no changes made to the cooling, etc.

 

Local sale pending.

 

Yeah thats what i ment Wannabe would need the isothermal spacer for the cold climate...

 

beebo ur mixing it up.. the isothermal just acts as a better heat sink. the coolant bypass is only used during the summer so there isn't a chance for the coolant to freeze.. the basic one doesn't even come with this bypass, so the coolant won't freeze because it's near the hot engine... im not too familiar with this stuff, but I'm pretty sure you got confused

 

Im so lost. I just want a spacer so i get 15hp...

 

so buy this one..

 

Or just keep the stock setup and get a basic (save some $$).

 

Sold

 

More like 11

 

yeah... i got lost haha

 

Actually I think you've got it mixed up. Coolant can't freeze in the summer, it's more likely to boil.

The coolant isn't just "near" the hot engine, it's running THROUGH it. The only way your coolant is going to freeze is if you're running a ridiculously thin coolant/water mixture. The coolant--a.k.a. ANTIfreeze--is what stops it from freezing. The coolant bypass is used during the summer because if you're running hot coolant through the throttle body, which is already hot due to ambient temperatures, you're just heating up the incoming air even more, making it less dense.

You want to shut the bypass in the winter to keep coolant flowing through the throttle body, so that the moisture that's present in the air doesn't freeze to the throttle body due to extreme low temperatures.

This concludes Lucky's coolant lessons 101 for the day. Homework is due on Monday.

 

^ that's what I was trying to say.. i was just typing fast and not being careful.. but I think I understood the concept

anyways thx for the explanation lucky