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Old 11-19-2020, 05:54 PM   #142
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Have you ever observed your oil temps in normal operation? It's significantly higher than 200F, even just cruising on the highway at 70mph. This type of cooler will bring that temp down.
Toodling around town oil temp stabilizes at 190F. On the highway at 75mph, maybe 225F? With coolant around 210 maybe? Not much of a temperature delta to cool the oil... So it seems this thing is not so much an oil cooler as it is an oil heater to warm the oil up so that it doesn't lag behind coolant temp so much when starting out cold.

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This particular cooler will have no meaningful effect on track.
Yeah, all evidence points to totally not worth the effort for that function...
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