Gutting or Removing the Thermostat

Originally Posted by retaliate1st

and your add coolant warning light will stay on...

I think if the system is properly full and no air pockets this will not happen.

[retaliate1st]

Originally Posted by SpooledupRacing

I think if the system is properly full and no air pockets this will not happen.

From experience, I beg to differ. I had my engine rebuilt by what I later realized to be an inexperienced shmuck. When I picked up the car the add coolant alarm/light stayed on constantly. It was completely full w/ no air pockets. (I drained and refilled it 3 times...)

800 miles later: coolant in the engine; rebuild. I discovered my lack of thermostat, put one in, and ever since the alarm / light has been off.

just my $0.02

Originally Posted by retaliate1st

From experience, I beg to differ. I had my engine rebuilt by what I later realized to be an inexperienced shmuck. When I picked up the car the add coolant alarm/light stayed on constantly. It was completely full w/ no air pockets. (I drained and refilled it 3 times...)

800 miles later: coolant in the engine; rebuild. I discovered my lack of thermostat, put one in, and ever since the alarm / light has been off.

just my $0.02

when I bought my rx7 it had no t-stat in it. no buzzer ever came on. So I know from experience that the buzzer wont go off without one.
Also dont u think reted would have mentioned that since he just said that he has run one with a gutted one and without one all together.

[RETed]

Originally Posted by retaliate1st

From experience, I beg to differ. I had my engine rebuilt by what I later realized to be an inexperienced shmuck. When I picked up the car the add coolant alarm/light stayed on constantly. It was completely full w/ no air pockets. (I drained and refilled it 3 times...)

800 miles later: coolant in the engine; rebuild. I discovered my lack of thermostat, put one in, and ever since the alarm / light has been off.

Sorry, I've never had this problem once I figured how to fill correctly.
I will run the engine with the coolant cap off.
I top off the coolant once everything gets sucked down.
I cap it when it starts to overflow consistently.
I've found that this will guarantee all air bubbles are out of the system.
This works with thermostat / gutted theromstat / no thermostat.
This works with the filler on the the thermostat cover for S4's and remote on the rad for S5's.
I don't fuck with the stupid bleed screws anymore, cause they tend to strip and fuck up the stupid o-ring.


-Ted