oil cooler or not?
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not sure on other brands but the oil stat ive got has a small internal bypass to bled air and keep a tinny bit of flow threw the cooler at all times while running avoids air or stone cold oil getting pushed to the bearings im told not enugh to alter tepms but enugh to stop air or sudden hot cold changes

i really want to see how mine goes with the stat and cooler filter etc being in a hot climte i think id be suprised not to see the cooler passing a decant amount of flow

the 13 row full flow (no stat) solved the over heating on the freeway on te last engine if thats anything to go by?

The oil temperature creeps up so slowly that (on my Mocal) the thermostat will only be open a fraction when the oil is just above 80C, so will very slowly purge out the cold oil back into the hot oil stream. Even when the thermostat is fully open, it only directs some of the oil through the cooler and it will mix back in with the hot oil.

How many of you have an oil cooler and no thermostat? I've seen installs without a thermostat, but surely your oil will struggle to get up to temperature in the winter?

Edited by PhilR on 19th Dec, 2014.

I run a cooler with no stat, as I was seeing oil temps of a 120/130 on long runs of boost, I fitted the cooler and it keeps it at a nice 100 now.

As for warming up, I always let it warm up a bit before I go for a blast just to make sure it's nice and warm.

I am only running a 10 row cooler that's hanging in the cold air.
Simon.

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Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

This is a serendipitous thread resurrection as I'm investigation oil temp sender threads for someone.

I know the Smiths mechanical bulb uses a 5/8" UNF thread, and pretty much all electric senders are 1/8" NPT - are there any others that are in common use ?

Metric is for people who can't do fractions.

M10x1 think thats the Tim sensors.

any reason you couldn't run the cooler as a bleed back system?

run it like we feed our turbos ie a small flow rate threw the cooler and back to the sump

You want to control the temperature of the oil going to the bearings - this is a function of the temperature in the sump, so there may be merit in that.

Not sure how you'd plumb it though.

Metric is for people who can't do fractions.

I run an mg metro water cooled oil cooler not sure on temps as been a couple years since driving the thing & I take the temps from a sump plug adapter mini sport started doing not sure if they still do

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