My cause for alarm at the temp reaching the halfway mark is mostly due to the fact that when I first got the car in the spring-time that it stayed over on the left not matter what. It never went past the "O" in NORMAL until the day I got stuck in traffic on the highway in the late summer, and then it went very high. I ended up cutting the heat on and pulled off to keep it from overheating. Ever since then it's just acted funny. Not Ha Ha funny, but funny.
I've figured out that it's going to need some TLC to keep her running good so I'm trying to budget what to do as I go. So far I've got an AEM short ram air intake from SP Motorsports, new plug wires and some NGK Iridium plugs. Figure I'll take care of the temp problems next and then hit the suspension.