Oil thermostats
02-15-2015, 02:46 PM
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Not sure, it's the same from hp500 to 900sc. I know what you mean with water temps being 60 at best, but I'm thinking with a properly sized cooler and some oil temp maybe it's not quite as critical as some may think? Just thinking if someone puts out a 1100 efi without a thermostat and that's their answer it's worth thinking about. I like thermostats but I get it that if it sticks and now oil temp keeps climbing to 300 that may be worse
02-15-2015, 02:57 PM
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Not sure, it's the same from hp500 to 900sc. I know what you mean with water temps being 60 at best, but I'm thinking with a properly sized cooler and some oil temp maybe it's not quite as critical as some may think? Just thinking if someone puts out a 1100 efi without a thermostat and that's their answer it's worth thinking about. I like thermostats but I get it that if it sticks and now oil temp keeps climbing to 300 that may be worse
I got to the point where I swear mine werent opening when I had a set of Derale's.
If the oil isnt hot you arent driving it hard enough.... LOL
02-15-2015, 03:09 PM
#7
I have an oil temp gauge to monitor the temp.
My concern is a long warm up period to get up to temp.
I had a small block ford in my little hotrod searay and it would take quite a while to get the oil up to temp (I had an oil temp gauge) and it had no oil cooler. If it wasn't for my temp gauge, I'd have gotten into the happy stick way too early.
My concern is a long warm up period to get up to temp.
I had a small block ford in my little hotrod searay and it would take quite a while to get the oil up to temp (I had an oil temp gauge) and it had no oil cooler. If it wasn't for my temp gauge, I'd have gotten into the happy stick way too early.
02-15-2015, 04:03 PM
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I just bought coolers with the thermostat/bypass attached, works well finally get some oil temp at startup/idle and keeps a perfect 220 at wot. I would recommend sizing coolers to your power level, I went a bit oversize for future upgrades and you can tell the stat does not open much and when it dies it's pretty quick.
02-15-2015, 04:28 PM
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I just bought coolers with the thermostat/bypass attached, works well finally get some oil temp at startup/idle and keeps a perfect 220 at wot. I would recommend sizing coolers to your power level, I went a bit oversize for future upgrades and you can tell the stat does not open much and when it dies it's pretty quick.
