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Originally posted by Carl83911

Thanks for responding Mike, I was at Tower of books on Sunday and was reading the Bently manual for 84 on. I know my car is an 83 but I found a section about Cooling that stated "The blower motor aids in cooling the engine when that car is at idle." I'm not sure if this would apply to the older 3.0.s

That's only for the 3.2L models, I'm pretty sure. They have a sensor in the back that turns the fan on when the temp gets to a certain point. I don't think the SC's have the same sensor.

When one of our cars is sitting in traffic it's going to heat up. At idle with no air circulation it's just going to happen. Sitting in traffic during the summer you may see temps as high as 230 or 250. As long as it cools off when you start moving again it shouldn't be a huge problem. Everybody panics when the engine hits 250*, but the factory set the thermostat for the fan on the 3.2L models at 245*, so I don't think that temp range is the point where the engine turns molten.