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Author If warm engine oil is good, what's with the oil coolers on some cars?
Lee Wilson
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27th Jun 07 at 12:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
If my water temp has just got to 90 what sort of temp is the oil going to be?
Stu
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quote:
Originally posted by deano87
! I didn't know that

The trouble is, I live about a 3 minute drive from the A1 and sitting at 70mph my car is revving at 3.5krpm


Wouldnt even worry about that pal!
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The V6 in my Calibra has an oil cooler, I think the gearbox does as well...
deano87
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I like posing through the town also



JOKEZ

Thanks guys.
Vaux Lad
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Iirc, coolant warms up twice as quickly as oil does.
So when the coolant reaches normal temp, double that and the oil should be at normal temp.
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quote:
Originally posted by Lee Wilson
I always wait for my temp gauge to get to just above 90 before it goes past 3k. First few gear changes are 2k.

So if my temp gauge is at 90 this doesnt necessarily mean the oil is warm yet?


I am totally the same. But i let it take over for about 2-3 mins before i drive. generally in a morning mine takes about 10 mins to get there and on the way home about 7, but i dont give it any throttle at all in a morning i dont go above 60 as i am obsest with letting the engine get up to temp!

I use to be like it with the race spec ped! But it makes your car last longer. My ped did 16000 of full throttle miles over taking cars on the a52 and it still runs sweet as a nut. You would never no my corsa has done over 100k when you listen to it and i think this is what does it.

[Edited on 27-06-2007 by richc]
Rob B
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christ its only a corsa, i drive the saxo normally from cold, not upto 2k etc
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob B
christ its only a corsa, i drive the saxo normally from cold, not upto 2k etc


But my mate never lets his furio saxo warm up, just drives off changing at 3.5-4k and it sounds tappitty as #beep# and its done 61k my corsa as done over 100k and engine is alot smoother!
Rob B
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thats cause they do tap, so do vtrs, fiesta's tap from the factory the old ones, my vts has a cooler as standard anyway, but still, i leave it about ten seconds when i turn it on to get the oil pressure up, then its fine to drive normally..
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob B
christ its only a corsa, i drive the saxo normally from cold, not upto 2k etc


it is only a corsa, but when someone has spent 1k++ on the engine you treat it with more respect. I changed my oil every 3,000 miles and never went over 3k until the oil was warm because i didnt want to fucker my rebuilt 20XE.
Rob B
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it shouldnt fuk up though willay, changing the oil fair enough, thats looking after it, not driving above 2k or leaveing it to get warm is a bit anal as long as it has oil pressure it wont make any difference really.
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I leave mine 10 mins before I go over 3.5k. Hardly ever go over 4k 90% of the time anyway
Joe
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Deano you do some worrying about your car.
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I drove mine like a cunt from cold.

It loved it.
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quote:
Originally posted by Robin
I drove mine like a cunt from cold.

It loved it.


Don't say that, you will have all the internet hypocrites raging.
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Having no water in it did more harm than beating it about with cold oil TBH, even that didn't actually kill it.
Stu
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On a Corsa engine as most people say, killing it from cold will have very little effect, tolerances are massive and the engines are underpowered and low stressed. Rag it from cold in something like a Subaru, Evo, TVR, RX7 etc or a tuned car and I gaurantee the engine life will be decreased.
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their faster when their cold anyway

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