Water pump on SR3 RS

[Marshy98]

I have just run up the new car to operating temp and noticed the water pump only runs for X time after the engine is stopped, is this normal as my old cars water pump ran all the time the master switch is on ?

Regards

Marshy

[Simon T]

should have stopped when the temp got down to below about 80c

S

Edited by Simon T on Saturday 18th September 20:47

[dsl2]

Congrats on the new car Paul. Don't forget your eating into your 30 hr run time warranty getting her fully up to temp in the garage there mate!

[Marshy98]

Cheers for that Simon/Darran

On the topic of on load hrs, plugged into the ecu while running the car, the on load hrs was 0 and never changed, at what point does this start the count ?

Regards

Marshy

[dsl2]

Engine hours for warranty purposes are ALL running time, not hours under load.

Can't say I've ever plugged a laptop into mine to check, I just use the hour meter in the MXL dash & occasionally get the Powertec lads to confirm at races.

When my motor let go the run hours were 29, but load hours were just under 7 as I always was very careful to throughly warm everything through before a race, maintaining water temp on the fan. I hadn't realized that hours were total running time not load hours so paid about a 75% rebuild bill which I still thought was very fair & equitable from a race engine builder bearing in mind if anyone else had built it I would of been on my own paying out for a new one.......

Edited by dsl2 on Sunday 19th September 09:36

[BertBert]

dsl2 said:

... so paid about a 75% rebuild bill which I still thought was very fair & equitable

Interesting, I've not read the terms of the powertec warranty (which I guess I should!). I'm in two minds about this. Getting a warranty at all on a race engine seems good, but I wonder where the contribution part kicks in? Would you pay 50% at 20 hours for example?

Bert

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BertBert said:

dsl2 said:

... so paid about a 75% rebuild bill which I still thought was very fair & equitable

Interesting, I've not read the terms of the powertec warranty (which I guess I should!). I'm in two minds about this. Getting a warranty at all on a race engine seems good, but I wonder where the contribution part kicks in? Would you pay 50% at 20 hours for example?

Bert

That's the way I understand it .......... but it's 66% @ 20 hours on a 1500 as (last time I looked) that's got a 30 hour warranty, whereas the 1340 (as Darren's) has 40, hence his about 75% contribution.

[BertBert]

Cheers, now I understand!
BErt

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Simon T said:

should have stopped when the temp got down to below about 80c

S

Ties up with what we were told by Radical Tech who joined us at shakedown; hence reason the master switch should be left in on position for about five minutes after killing the engine off the ignition switch i.e so it can kick back in if cooling down heat soak requires it?