I was intending on installing the thermostatic sandwich plate and an external oil cooler. Is there problems in cold weather using the non-thermostatically controlled adapter?
I had a problem with excessively high oil pressures when I performed this on my old air-cooled cars. The thick cold oil would create excessive oil pressures in the external cooler and in some cases I had heard it expanded like a balloon. In the aircooled setup, an inline oil filter would often take the pressure and burst. Any similar issues on the watercooled cars with the external oil coolers? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of spec miata Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [a2-16v-list] Track - temps and more 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 _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list For list archives, see listinfo link above.
