Oil Temps?

[Fish]

OK took the car out for a quick drive tonight as I hadn’t used it for a couple of weeks.

Let the car get up to temp, water around 60-65, oil around 50 before moving. Water goes up to and holds around 76-79c and the oil to around 65-68c. Oil pressure is good, this is all town driving getting to a nice dual carriage way.

Get to the D/C and start to open it up…. Water goes down to around 70-72, oil down to 60-61. Then try dropping to a lower gear and making the engine work harder, get more heat sort of thing, and oil went down to 55c water went back up a little to 75ish.

Come back off the D/C and temps go back up to 78-79c water and 63-64 oil.

Car is a UK spec with twin oil coolers and a custom v-mount which appears to work a little too well.

I will be removing the I/C and fitting the splitter back between the rad and I/C, lowering to amount of air the rad will get. Hoping to bring temps up to somewhere better, but the oil bit I cant work out.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Fish

[Red and Single]

Any ideas?

Drive it harder !!

[Fish]

But the harder I was driving it, the colder the water and oil was getting.

Fish

[Laeeq]

im sitting here waiting for the answers to this too before installing mine....:confused:

[NurburgRob]

It was bloody cold yesterday though, you\'ll be thankful of the cooling capacity come summer.

My car was sooooooooo quick last night, lovin\' it!

[Fish]

Laeeq, what you bought now?

Yeah it was cold, but if the oil temps aren\'t up there then its not good, and with the driver day in April (yeah I know its a way off) I want it to be working properly.

One thing I did nothing was the air temps went from 25c down to 12c.

Fish

[m4drx]

my temps are always the above! i have 2 coolers and a big alu rad and standard ic (for now) if im sitting in traffic ages then oil may go up to the 80s and water up to 90 then the apexi turns the fans on. but i dont understand how this is bad?

i get that viscosity changes with temp but i thought they were ok for time of year?

are you being paranoid fish or should i be worried, im on the april thing too!

when i had my fans on all the time the water wouldnt go above 45 but i put that back.

[Fish]

A side issue of the temps being too cold, is that the PFC goes back into cold start mode and adds extra fuel, thus making a rich map even richer and emptys the tank even quicker.

Hopegully one of the engine guru\'s will chime in on this?

Fish

[MikeLMR]

is there a thermostat fitted ? if so what rating

[Fish]

All stock thermostats in place.

Fish

[MikeLMR]

where are the temperature readings being taken?

[oldone]

Dont worry Fish its all normal for this tie of year where the air amb temps are low come summer then it will increase........:yes :cheers  This time of year I struggle to get my water temps higher than 60degC........:rolleyes:

[Fish]

The water temps are from the commander, the oil temp/pressure is from a plate under the oil filter to my SPA digital gauge.

Fish

[FD3UK]

At the moment I have 60 Deg oil and water temps on the move. I have adjusted settings on the Microtech to zero compensation above 60 Deg.

Going to wait and see what its like in the summer and I may block off part of the Rad.

[McCARTHY]

they all sound normal to me buddy i get the same.