mik i dont think temps of 200 f in this kinda ambient temp is anything to worry about

especially if it stops rising once your cruising

but if your worried.. adding a thermo to cut
in at about 195 f will help control the temps if your under load (ie going up hill or just giving it an old fashioned boot full )

put a fan on, drops the temp but todays only 25deg c so a bit hard to tell which one is the contributing factor. car ran at 185f with a new 180 f thermostat. turn the fan on (manually at this stage) and drops below 180f.

funny thing is with fan off, stock fan when revving spins the elec fan by its self.... rather funny to watch but shos its working.

Didnt replace ater pump yet but starting to wonder if it could be that or that even though the twin core is bigger, it does not flow as much (therfore keeping heat in the system, shouldnt be though)

well all the drama came down to a dodgey radiator cap... new cap, 30deg and only 180 on the guage..... no overheating again.

strange tough that the temp will still raise slightly when under laod but then the thermo opens and its all good.

now just to sort those shocks out and get the oil pressure guage hooked up before datnats (maybe a diff too and tie rods)

My personal opinion would be to drop the standard fan anyway, and replace it by a pull-type thermo. The largest you can find, that would fit on the radiator. You simply install a piece of s/s pipe somewhere in the radiator piping, and weld a boss in there that'll take a thermoswitch. That's if no provision is made on the radiator itself.

Non of that fan whine anymore, and you gain probably upwards of 3kw, and faster revving, and fuel economy and extended water pump life... But it's more about the 3kw than anything else...

wont gain that much by removing it for a thermo only, will drain more on the alt. but the waterpump still has to be belt driven so no real measurable gains at the moment.

the current mods have more than a 3kw gain on the old a15 anyway... its more time to improve the handeling than the go now... it already has the stop