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Originally Posted by bermis519
Well...i noticed today in the 95 degree heat, if it was idleing with out the A/C running it would go two notces past half and that seems a little to much to me....if i turn the a/c on, it will go to two notches from half and stay there and the cooling fans kick on like there is no tomorrow and they kick on at a pretty high speed, but when the a/c isn't on, the cooling fans don't to this. It's kinda weird and i don't understand the big temp flux from going down the road to the idleing.....I also run dexcool too...but I have two gallons of the green stuff waiting in my trunk....
mike
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Mike--When running down the road, the radiator is getting pretty good air flow from the ram air through the radiator. If you pull over off the highway, the temp may raise for awhile until the heat in the engine from higher speeds is dumped into the radiator and blown away with the fan.
The air conditioner is extracting heat from the interior of the car and dumping that heat into the air coming into the front of the radiator. It will make the engine run hotter.