Thread: operating temp?

Quote: Originally Posted by Boneman I have to disagree with this stament about thermostats. Automotive thermostats are pretty much on/off devices and are either OPEN or CLOSED. It will 'pop' open when the thermostats operating tempature is reached, not gradually open. Usually there is only around a 5 deg temp difference between opened and closed. So even if it dosen't 'pop' open immediately, it will be fully open in a...

Quote: Originally Posted by mellofelow And what's up with the switch to intake temp? what a useless feature. it should have been ambient temp reading. I'm with you on this for sure. Would much rather have ambient temp like I've had on other bikes. It's been pointed out on this forum that the intake temp can be done with the same device and the ambient temp requires a whole separate device but still I don't know how to...

How do you get oil/engine temp? All it'll display for me is intake temp, which is always like 83F even when I'm at 4-5 bars

My 07 stays at approx 175-180 in high 80's to the low 90's in south Florida during the summer. It does go up some in traffic, maybe 200 in heavy stop and go traffic.... (This is with fresh anti-freeze, Prestone pre-mixed 50/50) Note: I did change out the antifreeze on all my bikes with prestone 50/50 not long ago. I can say with the FJR, it took longer for the temp bars to come up while sitting in traffic with the orginal...

I have the same question as SovietRobot, I can't seem to get it to display anything other than the intake temperature. Is that something they started putting on the 07's?

Moving above 35 mph, with outside temperatures in the 30's, 163F seems to be the magic number, in temperatures in the 90's, low 190'sF.

Quote: Originally Posted by fz6gow I have the same question as SovietRobot, I can't seem to get it to display anything other than the intake temperature. Is that something they started putting on the 07's? I can't speak for the '06's and under but on the '07 and up you just push the "reset" button once and it switches between the 2 readings.

Hi I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Here is too hot in this spring, with outside temps about 30-35 Celsius I have Fz6 S2 2007, and I go to work every day with my bike. Once a month i go to road with my friends (my wife hates this) In the week , in city traffic, my coolant temp vary between 95C-101C , and the fan is on-off-on many times on my way. In the road, or large avenues, the temp slow down to 85-90C. I think the FZ6 behavior is like a SS....

That makes the FZ6 unique is not the fact that the temperature fluctuates like this, but the fact that it has a gauge which lets you see it happening. Every water cooled engine made will behave this way, getting hotter at times and colder at other time. But the temperature varying all over the place like this tends to make people nervous (as evidenced by the number of posts to this forum asking about this phenomenon) so the average...

Hey everyone, relatively new to the forum. I joined back a couple months ago but have mostly been reading and learning from the discussion. First post. My question is for all who ride '07 or newer fizzers. On the digital display, there is a temperature reading that can be swiched between the intake temp and the engine coolant temp. The engine coolant temp being an estimation of engine temp. It is my assumption that this reading is very...