There's stuff called Water Wetter (I think that's the name) You add it to your coolant and it's supposed to cool the engine more efficiently. Never used it though.

 

get a open hood like mentioned above and also get a tune and have the fans come on sooner.

 

Royal Purple has an additive to the coolant thatreduces the temperature

 

I tried some stuff today that is some kind of water wetter. It does what the royal purple is suppose to do. I think it's by redline. I guess I'll find out if it's any good. Suppose to take the heat away more efficiently.

 

Have to remember too, the S197's engine is all-aluminum, which by it's nature doesn't hold on to heat very long, where does it all go? Out through the engine compartment, which is what you(and all of us) are experiencing......

 

1) Add ceramic coated headers or wrap your stock ones.
2) Tune the car so the fans come on sooner as mentioned.
3) Get a heat-extractor hood as mentioned, like the Saleen.

I wouldn't worry about it anyway, there are hundreds of thousands of these things on the road, many with F/I, and there are no masses of over-heated broken down Stangs clogging up the shoulders of the roads.

 

Thats what I did. Looks and functionality.

 

i used the sct and set up the low speed fan to start at 170 degrees and the high speed fan to start at 180degrees. i guess that helps me a little. im from fl and it gets hot here

 

i've been wondering the same thing. there is a paint called Black Velvet that resists heat up to 1200 degrees. it could be painted on the manifolds. i've heard some NASA guys have done that [not astronauts but racers]. i've got non-ceramic coated headers that i could wrap or put a coating on. what i wonder is how hot the air in the CAI gets from the engine. wouldn't using some of that adhesive backed foil work wonders with that? anybody know of a coating for the OUTSIDE "undercarriage" that would work the same as koolmat/dynamat/etc.????

 

Additives like that function by replacing antifreeze in your coolant. You can only use them in places where your cooling fluid wont freeze (ie. warm areas.. or warm garage kept cars) Also, Water Wetter in my experience tends to leave a ton of gunk behind, Zerex Super Coolant is superior, and its pink!