I have been looking around online and seeing alot of Prelude with Mugen Radiator cap with Mugen fan switch and Mugen Thermostat what is the surpose of upgrading the OEM Thermostat with the Mugen one? and will it benefit me in any way of putting it on my car? Or is it just a waste of cash ? i just wanted to get some more info on it before i decide to buy it. thanx

 

It is a BIG BIG waste of cash I ended up returing mine... unless you do some serious 24 hour of lemans type racing then it will really do nothing for you except get your car to operating temperature faster/.///

 

I say waste of money - i guess the radiator cap may have a slight higher pressure rating = It takes 2 more degrees for the coolant to boil!!!!!! Wow!................

Hopefully, the car won't get that hot - or any where near there anyway.........so, the moral of this is - waste of money. Just for looks i guess.

 

alright thanks guys for the great feed back .

 

With all 3 installed, they do keep your coolant temps about 10 degrees cooler than stock. But unless you are tracking the car, there's no point.

 

eh, just modify or eliminate the thermostat if you need to run cooler, probably sucks for warm up time though.

 

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and elminating the thermostat will make it so u never reach operating temp in winter......even in socal it took 30 min to get to NOT, on the freeway it dropped back down to cold...dont do it

 

don't think people have too many problems keeping the engine cool in the winter anyway.