Hey Alex, long time... For whatever reasons, I was banned from the old list over a year ago. Thanks to Chad and John for making it available again...
So Alex, you took your car to the track w/out inviting any one of your socal buddies??? Anyway, those temps are "normal" for our cars w/out external oil coolers. Ever since I've installed the Eurosport med sized cooler, it has never gone past 200 on the street nor 230 on the track again. I've heard that 250-ish is about as high as you want to go on dino oil, 270-280 for synth. Also, I think once you get past optimal heat range, every x degrees will decrease y hp, I just can't remember what the values for x and y were but I think it's 7 and 1... Again, what most people refer to as the "stock oil cooler", that small square thingie above the oil filer, isn't really a cooler. It's more of a heat exchanger to get fluids to temps quickly for smog purposes. If you get a thermostatic adapter plate, it'll be necessary to remove that thingie. If you get a non-thermostatic plate, you won't (thermostatic is thicker). Non-thermostatic will take a little bit longer to warm up in cold weather. You could just cover up the external oil cooler w/ a piece of alum plate or something... Feels like I've never left the list... :-) Son __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com
