Vtec_Nah
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Hopefully someone has an idea on what caused my Si to overheat.
I'll make the story short and as much detailed as I can.
It all started with me teaching my girl how to drive stick. Outside Temp was 55° or so. She was doing good getting off first and driving inside a small parking lot going from one end, stopping and getting off first again and going to the other end, repeating the process, rounds would be about 30 seconds from one end to the other. I didn't want to teach her how to shift to second just yet. 15 min in, she had a hard stall, all the lights came on for a quick second but disappeared and I tried not to panic. One light that came on and stayed was the engine oil. It said "check engine oil" however I figured it wasn't that bad since I had her turn the car on again and the light wasn't there, 10 min back into the lesson of her still driving in 1st below 3k or so rpms we finished and switched. Once I got back into the drivers I somehow glance at the temperature gauge and it's all the way to H.
I panic and pop the hood and let some air go in, blast the Heater on high and rev the car a little and the gauge slowly started dropping. Let it sit like that for 10-15 min and drove back home carefully. I was wondering if this was due to driving in first gear during 15-20 min in 3k or so rpms? Or could there be another reason? Just to mention i just installed the sirimoto flex fuel kit along with Hondata's ethanol basemap, however haven't pumped e85 since I still have a full tank of 91 Oct. Any feed back is appreciated from @Hondata also, thanks
I'll make the story short and as much detailed as I can.
It all started with me teaching my girl how to drive stick. Outside Temp was 55° or so. She was doing good getting off first and driving inside a small parking lot going from one end, stopping and getting off first again and going to the other end, repeating the process, rounds would be about 30 seconds from one end to the other. I didn't want to teach her how to shift to second just yet. 15 min in, she had a hard stall, all the lights came on for a quick second but disappeared and I tried not to panic. One light that came on and stayed was the engine oil. It said "check engine oil" however I figured it wasn't that bad since I had her turn the car on again and the light wasn't there, 10 min back into the lesson of her still driving in 1st below 3k or so rpms we finished and switched. Once I got back into the drivers I somehow glance at the temperature gauge and it's all the way to H.
I panic and pop the hood and let some air go in, blast the Heater on high and rev the car a little and the gauge slowly started dropping. Let it sit like that for 10-15 min and drove back home carefully. I was wondering if this was due to driving in first gear during 15-20 min in 3k or so rpms? Or could there be another reason? Just to mention i just installed the sirimoto flex fuel kit along with Hondata's ethanol basemap, however haven't pumped e85 since I still have a full tank of 91 Oct. Any feed back is appreciated from @Hondata also, thanks
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