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Originally Posted by pallen
To be fair, he does specify for track use and especially FI. I did laugh when he said you have to have an oil cooler, then spent several minutes complaining about how it's hard to get the oil up to temp.  |
Exactly!
He tells us: "We've already established that, if you track this car, stock or with forced induction, you need an oil cooler on the car, there's no way around it."
No, we have not established that... Him having "talked to people who race" doesn't establish the *need* for an oil cooler.
He refers to the service manual which gives specs for oil pressure, but what he doesn't mention is that those specs are not an absolute requirement, but are referenced to *a specified temperature* which is close to normal operating temp. Of *course* pressure will drop with elevated temperature and it's higher at lower temps (which he mentions). The spec just means that at the *specified* temperature, pressure significantly lower than spec indicates there's a problem. It does not mean it's a "problem" if pressure is lower than that at higher temps. He does mention "you wanna stay out of the 40psi range", so maybe he does understand that pressures below the "spec" are somewhat to be expected. But anyway, he's speaking as if he has authority on the subject that I don't think he actually does...