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My Themostat went bad and I think I want to replace it, even *** car is driving without it now. Every Auto parts place I have gone to only have the SR20 one that has 76 degrees C on it and seem to be slightly different otherwise - shape size of spring. I want to know if this will work in my motor which is a SR16ve. The specs on mine says 82 degrees C.

How will the difference in degrees affect the running of the motor?

Thanks

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You can use the standard SR20 76,5 Celcius degree thermostat without any problem and it will actually improve your engine cooling efficiency. Please keep in mind that you cannot use any other thermostat lower than that.

I was using a low-temp wide flow type thermostat till my tuner found out some extra settings on the ecu. There is a cold start phase starting from 20 to 75 degrees on engines that use a stock 82 degree thermostat. The same setting exists on engines that use a 76,5 degree thermostat but the cold start off is at 65 degrees.
If your engine is constantly at cold start you would loose a noticeable amount of power and you would have a terrible fuel mileage.

21200-60J00 OEM SR16VE (N1 including) 82C degree also used on N30,U14,P11 SR20VE (9709-9809)
21200-0C811 OEM SR20VE (9809+) 76.5C degree also used on the rest SR family including VET and P12

You can find the 82C degree also as a Nippon part with code G4000-125209