Oil temperature?

Rich E. · 01-20-08, 03:36 AM

What oil temps are you guys seeing? Drove the car today and it was fairly cool out. I never saw the oil temp go much over 50 degrees celsius. Is that normal? I would've at least liked to see a temp near 100 degrees celsius.

Thanks in advance
Rich.

Steve C · 01-20-08, 09:03 AM

Rich,

I like 80C H2o and 80 min to 90C oil.

Steve

Pat Buckley · 01-20-08, 09:37 AM

Did the same thing today and the oil temps were similar - not much above 50C.....

chuck smith · 01-20-08, 09:44 AM

I had to wrap my oil cooler in insulation for most of the year except summer to achieve decent oil temps.

David Briggs · 01-21-08, 12:35 AM

I am not certain that the temp senders supplied by CAV were correct for the VDO gauges installed in the pre 100 cars. My oil pressure read backwards, my coolant always reads very low, oil temp did get pretty hot in a track session early on but I have since installed an oil cooler with a thermostat and now I don't see much oil temp either.
I did contact VDO and was able to get the correct oil pressure sender, it was quite different than what came with the car.
Dave

Kalun D · 01-21-08, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by 561234

....but I have since installed an oil cooler with a thermostat and now I don't see much oil temp either.

Dave

Is that a mechanical thermostat? How does it control oil cooling? Does it bypass the cooler?