Extreme Heat

[DastardlyDave]

I have started planning and have on order a few mods to help with under-hood temp management. This is in preparation for taking my CTR to the track next year. It seems that each year gets hotter than the previous. As ambient temps, track temps, tire temps, and vehicle temps continue to rise, I was wondering what thoughts everyone had on the future of amateur motorsports? Will track days have to move to the cooler months, and no longer have heavy seasons during the summer?

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[Websitesdown]

I have started planning and have on order a few mods to help with under-hood temp management. This is in preparation for taking my CTR to the track next year. It seems that each year gets hotter than the previous. As ambient temps, track temps, tire temps, and vehicle temps continue to rise, I was wondering what thoughts everyone had on the future of amateur motorsports? Will track days have to move to the cooler months, and no longer have heavy seasons during the summer?

It's global warming. It's going to kill us all before you make it to the track sorry bub.

 

[MooMoo]

why wait till next year to go to the track?

Heat sucks for sure, these cars don't like it specially and they tell you. But the worst part is not even that its sitting around int 100 degree weather while you wait for your session. Some places have indoor areas with AC. I will still go on a super hot day though, just keep an eye on the temps and back off when they get too high for comfort. I remember when I had my M2 I ran the AC sometimes lol

 

[Gansan]

If you think about it long term (over decades), as weather extremes get worse, car makers will migrate to having better cooling systems by default, just so they'll be reliable enough to sell. As younger people will own those cars, they'll have a better starting point than today's cars.

 

[Rhorn]

With how the car market is trending with adding so much weight, tires are going to be the first thing that cuts your time short

 

[Websitesdown]

If you think about it long term (over decades), as weather extremes get worse, car makers will migrate to having better cooling systems by default, just so they'll be reliable enough to sell. As younger people will own those cars, they'll have a better starting point than today's cars.

It won't take decades, according to Al Gore it happened 20 years ago, we're dead son. We're typing on the internet beyond the grave. Sea levels have taken over the planet and tariffs have caused recession beyond any means ever imagined.

@ OP there are some really good threads on how to tackle the heat build up. The biggest one is the oil pan shield at the bottom of our cars, switch that out then start spending some money on a good oil cooler / radiator upgrade.

 

[blueroadster]

Some dates:

• 1856
• 1896
• 1912
• 1988
• 2003 Greta Thunberg born to later carry the climate activist torch
• 2006 "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore

Meanwhile, Florida is still above water and the rich continue to buy waterline property without any concern.

 

[Tougefl5]

I doubt there's turbocharged cars that's not prone to struggle in these "extreme hot temperatures" especially the modern vehicles. The things some people are asking from this platform makes me wonder if some just bought the wrong car.

 

[ThunderPigeon]

Don't wait until next year to go to the track. The world is going to end and become 100% ocean by then. Go now!

 

[blueroadster]

I doubt there's turbocharged cars that's not prone to struggle in these "extreme hot temperatures" especially the modern vehicles. The things some people are asking from this platform makes me wonder if some just bought the wrong car.

There are plenty of turbocharged cars that do not struggle in extreme hot temperatures. The stock FL5 is well rounded overall but some components need to be upgraded to increase thermal efficiency based upon outside conditions as well as driving style/habits/expectations. Modern vehicles such as the FL5 migrated to parallel coolant flows where the system overall is less effective as compared to divorced coolant flows as used in the past.

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