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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MustangChris" data-source="post: 631984" data-attributes="member: 10830">if you start cooling the car too much and too soon your going to shorten your motor's life due to the fact that the oil will stay cooler longer which means that it will be less effective on start ups and less effective until it warms to proper opperating temperatures. It may also cause problem i'm not aware of due to my small brain not knowing everything...to go to a 180* therm., with holes in it, with early fans, and a new radiator and a 70/30 mixture. . . . your going extreme for a DD, street car thats reliable the way it is...I suggest leaving the thermostat at stock temperature for the thermostat, use Peak/prestone coolant (pure 100% coolant) and mix it yourself with store-bought distilled water. (unless you honestly feel like distilling your own water. lol) to 50/50.Honestly, if you start doing all these coolant upgrades on your car, you probably wont see any problems... im not saying "if you drill a hole in your thermostat your #4 rod will start knocking." I'm just telling you to look at the bigger picture and to weigh the benifits and consequenses. shorter lifepan (even if its just a few months) to gain . . . .. ????as long as your car doesnt have an overheating problem, there is not much need to start ovver-doing the coolant system with upgrades. an upgraded radiator, early fans, and a slightly-off ratio probably wont harm anything, even in the long run... but if youre keeping your car at 150* when optimal temperature is like, 200*... clearly you are going out of ford's engineering plans, which may be a good idea on some cars, but not such a good idea on nearly stock, fully reliable, almost-factory cars...</blockquote>