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It’s gunna be 97 degrees Fahrenheit, 36 degrees Celsius at the track I’m going to tomorrow. So I guess the new one is gunna get a good test.
Hey buddy, im in the shop today. I’m building you a miniature cryogenic cooler for your sensor, mounts to the back, battery powered.
 
Hey buddy, im in the shop today. I’m building you a miniature cryogenic cooler for your sensor, mounts to the back, battery powered.

Hahaha

Funny but if it keeps being problem I have that second radiator fan, they only used one of the two with H2O….was thinking there might be a way to mount that fan back there somewhere
 
The V2 and the V4 are pretty much the same in the gearbox section. There is an inner drum with pins that an outer drum slides on. Outer drum has the magnet. You can separate those two drums and manually monkey with the position. In the V2 there are 4 possible combinations on GPS orientation 90 degrees each. The V4 has 2. I have a piece of .5 mil teflon insulator between the sensor and the engine case. The insulator came with the sensor (Corse part). Does that help? Don’t know but I’ve never had an issue and the kit part came with it for a reason.
 
Something else I noticed, on the newer supposedly heat resistant sensor the thermal protective cover on the wires coming out of the sensor goes all the way up to the sensor, whereas the older one the thermo shield starts about an inch away from the sensor down the wire….I feel like having that thermo protection run all the way up to the sensor on the wires may help because those more exposed wires will conduct more heat from the wires up into the sensor.
 

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Parts. Stock on the left, RS on the right. The RS drum has a significantly stronger magnet so theoretically you could insulate the module even further away from the cover. In any case your problem is the association between the GPS and the surface it mounts to. If you insulate that, your not going to have a problem with radiant heat.
 

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Iirc, another member here machined and mounted a heat sink to the gps. Maybe that would help?
I remember that however if I recall he also had fiber washers separating the module from direct surface contact with the case. That’s the key. The heat sink would be a heat migrator from whatever it is attached to. I’m his case he mounted the heat sink to a resin case module which ain’t going to work. There has to be a mathematical thermal transfer. If anything the ambient/radiating heat is going to heat aluminum heat sink to a higher temp than the resin case in the module. Personally I don’t think the sink did anything, it’s all in keeping the flat back surface of the module off that engine case and in his case, those fiber washers did that
 
I remember that however if I recall he also had fiber washers separating the module from direct surface contact with the case. That’s the key. The heat sink would be a heat migrator from whatever it is attached to. I’m his case he mounted the heat sink to a resin case module which ain’t going to work. There has to be a mathematical thermal transfer. If anything the ambient/radiating heat is going to heat aluminum heat sink to a higher temp than the resin case in the module. Personally I don’t think the sink did anything, it’s all in keeping the flat back surface of the module off that engine case and in his case, those fiber washers did that

So maybe some kind of very thin ceramic plate between the sensor and engine.
 
I remember thinking the same thing; doubtful that the resin section of the sensor would really transfer anything thermally.

I don't think it needs to be anything as fancy as a ceramic plate. Two washers so there's an air gap between the sensor and case should do it.

I don't even thing its all too critical that they are fiber washers since the bosses for the bolts in the sensor case are separate from the guts of it.

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