Is my curvy hot or not?

I've got a gauge on my curvey minitwin.
However afraid that's about as much help as I can be right now, not sure on details.

[Sid Squid]

Of all the things that might go awry with your bike, I do rather feel you're obsessing about this particular issue, it simply isn't a problem from which the SV is known to suffer, your concerns over the light coming on and it being too late are perhaps not realistic, when the light comes on it means: getting very hot - not: it's broken.

G – Can you look up the details for me please, that would be most helpful ta.

Sid Squid – perhaps I am obsessing, but I don’t think there is anything odd about wanting to know what the temp of the engine is. Especially on a bike that I have never properly run before, let alone ragged round a track!! How do I know the bike isn’t faulty?? I have trashed engines before where they have overheated where the cooling was impaired (rad was blocked on one, also one where the waterpump failed).

As for the warning light, I might miss this??? If i am on track , I am probably concentrating on other things?? The odd glance at the temp isn’t that much of an overhead mind. Once I get a ‘warm feeling’ (pardon the pun ) that everything’s normal then I can pay less attention.

if you're fitting an aftermarket temp gauge connecting it to the oil instead of the water is a much better idea - the coolant gets up to temp v. quickly compared to oil - hence quite a few performance cars have oil temp gauges as you can wreck them quickly otherwise. also the oil temp is of more relevance.

you could perhaps get a gauge for each if you really want water temp...

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

G – Can you look up the details for me please, that would be most helpful ta.

Afraid the bike's with the Jordan's at the mo, collecting it tomorrow then going straight to Brands from there.

If you still need the info, wanna drop me a pm sometime after Thursday, as I'll probably have compeletely forgotten on Monday, after a weekend's racing .

(Or if you're at Brands, pop over and you can have a look yourself).

Originally Posted by sdusk

I wish Suzuki had kept just the light on the pointy! On a water cooled engine it is next to meaningless to know the exact temperature - as long as it is below 120 Celcius you are fine.

My K6 has the temp gauge and a red light for FI / Oil.

Yeah a mate with a duke had a fancy dash, that had oil temp gauge (amongst everything else including intergalactic walkie talkie!! ) but I have to say I am more familiar with coolant temp, lets face it, if the bike has been running long enough to get up to coolant temp, then there will be some heat in the oil too

G – I am picking a RaceX one up tonight, hopefully even if the sender doesn’t fit directly then I can get an adaptor?? I’d still be interested to know what yours is though, so I’ll give you a shout next week. Do you know if it is electric or capillary?? (does it work with the ignition off).

It's electric - from what I rember there's a single electrical cable going from the radiator to the 'clock' on the dash.

Ok, the RaceX one was a capillary one in the end. There is no problem with this, but the sensor simply doesn’t fit the bike!!! £15 wasted …

So I went down Halfords, they did do a gauge, a TIM 034 Superdash to be precise £29.99. Opened the box in the shop, it was electric this time and the little sender on this looked like a standard sender, it also came with some adaptors. Got this home, wipped out the temp warning sender. It was close, but no cigar with the new sender!!! Ready to say feck it all … but I had tried the other gauge in the fan switch hole (to no avail), so I thought I’d try it using one of the adaptors in this with the TIM gauge. Yipieee, she rides, the smallest of the adaptors is a perfect fit!!!!!

I have yet to wire it up, but the hard part is done!!!

The £15 wasn’t totally wasted as I used the little metal mounting plate it had in the RaceX box, but on the TIM gauge (still an expensive bit of tin ). I mounted it using one of the bolts that hold the clocks on. It sits neatly below the revcounter/indicator light area (not using the clocks surround, so it is visable). So that’s a temp gauge sorted.

Obviously my fan won’t be automatic now mind as I have removed the sensotr/switch, but I intend to wire the fan directly with a manual switch, which for my track bike is ace. When I get back in the pits I can get rid of the latent heat by running the fan for a bit.

So to answer my own original question … a TIM 034 Superdash is the boy

I might get one for my road bike too!!

Result Blue ! keep us posted please.

I need a new fan switch for the rad as it don't work, hence why a gauge is handy as fan is very quiet and smooth when running, and it's a cheaper option to go for the gauge and a manual switch.

Not obsessive just careful.