2019 Ontario Time Attack Season

[wparsons]

Originally Posted by Jordanwolf

Scary. I just worry about warranty as I'm good under the powertrain warranty for a while, but I also worry about that one day where I decide to produce too much heat.. I've already done it to my brakes lol..

Either way I'll end up getting one, just not sure when. Researching continues.

My dealership didn't care from a warranty perspective, but if it sprung a leak and I spun a bearing because it ran out of oil it definitely wouldn't have been covered under warranty.

The problem with waiting for signs of too much heat is that the symptom is usually a big engine failure because of lack of oil pressure. There's no way to monitor oil pressure stock (unless it drops below like 5psi).

Tracking it without knowing what the temperatures and/or pressures are is playing with fire. If you're going to track it and not going to log temperature and/or pressure, then I'd suggest running 5w30 instead of 0w20 and run high quality oil that can take serious heat. 0w20 gets too thin when the temperatures go up and the pressure falls off.

[Jordanwolf]

Originally Posted by wparsons

My dealership didn't care from a warranty perspective, but if it sprung a leak and I spun a bearing because it ran out of oil it definitely wouldn't have been covered under warranty.

The problem with waiting for signs of too much heat is that the symptom is usually a big engine failure because of lack of oil pressure. There's no way to monitor oil pressure stock (unless it drops below like 5psi).

Tracking it without knowing what the temperatures and/or pressures are is playing with fire. If you're going to track it and not going to log temperature and/or pressure, then I'd suggest running 5w30 instead of 0w20 and run high quality oil that can take serious heat. 0w20 gets too thin when the temperatures go up and the pressure falls off.

So basically get an oil temp/pressure gauge in the future. As well as don't play with fire, fire bad.

[wparsons]

Originally Posted by Jordanwolf

So basically get an oil temp/pressure gauge in the future. As well as don't play with fire, fire bad.

Oil temp you can log with an OBD dongle, ecutek or OFT (AIM solo DL could do it too). Oil pressure requires adding a sensor/sender before you can view it on a gauge.