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- 2018 Dodge Challenger Hellcat
@Linda's Hell Cat Are you trying to say this customers car blew up because he didn't have a 180 thermostat? If you are I do think we should argue about this. Do you realize how many 9 second passes and 8 second passes I have on a stock thermostat? Sure I prolly should change to a 180 at this point now since I have a built engine and none of the factory tolerances. Do you know how many of these shops I have had to retune cars from because the cars do not run well at all and are just straight up dangerous when I have their logs and or file pop up in my inbox. I don't really care what everyone else is doing. I know at least one of the tuners on your list here recommends a package that is boost on a stock redeye then I had on my stock engine when I went 8.8s. I won't be following the way of some of these people. Maybe a thermostat is all it takes to fix overspinning a 2.7 blower and all the additional cylinder pressure. A thermostat will be the customers decision from me. His thermostat was open from being heat soaked. Doesn't matter at that point if you have a 100 degree thermostat a heat soaked car is a heat soaked car. I think if we are going to argue over thermostats we should also argue over spark plugs. But since they are difficult on a hellcat it is about the only platform you see not doing them. at the end of the day he added 2 pounds of boost to his car. Was at 14 degrees max timing on 100 octane fuel. A thermostat or not he'd be in the same situation he is in today.
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