What oil temps do you guys encounter in your cars?

[Guest]

Running the std. oil cooling system (coolant thing on oil filter) what temps does your guys oil get up to when:

1. Thrashing it on the road

2. On the track

And what model etc as well

Rob

[Simon C]

Road temp on mine reaches 90 degrees, but my turbo isn't watercooled. Not sure what it got up to on the track.

[gotasuby]

90-95 on road. 110-115 on track after 5 laps of ruapuna

[nztintin]

80ish on road

110 max on track

98 forester

[Stoffa]

90-100 on the road, 125 on the track.....then nunganuganunga

[99GTB]

1999 gtb 2.5L

110 after 5 laps ruapuna.

~90 on road.

[BT]

Sure there has been many threads on this...

On the track after 8-10 laps looking at 120 with Process West oil cooler on GDB Spec C.

[R.D]

normally between 80 and 90- road driving. max was nearly 95 in traffic.

[Divine]

I would love to know where to hook up a oil temp gauge on a '91 Legacy.

[Scoobydoo]

 Divine said:

I would love to know where to hook up a oil temp gauge on a '91 Legacy.

Easiest and most common way is to get a sandwich plate and install between the block and the oil filter.

[Dv8er - FSTWRX]

I get 90avg on the road usually. Hottest it's been was 100 heading up the mountain to Whakapapa ski area, kind of ironic getting my highest temp in an area surrounded by snow but I guess it is a pretty steep hill haha.

Car is a V5 STi RA

[pl0x]

 Scoobydoo']

[quote name='Divine said:

I would love to know where to hook up a oil temp gauge on a '91 Legacy.

/quote]

Easiest and most common way is to get a sandwich plate and install between the block and the oil filter.

On the 2L cars a sandwich plate causes the oil filter to be the lowest part of the engine and sticks out/down,

and possibly one of the worst things to hit.

If your only after oil temp sensor a better solution is to drill & tap the sump plug, cheaper to

[Tony]

 pl0x said:

On the 2L cars a sandwich plate causes the oil filter to be the lowest part of the engine and sticks out/down,

and possibly one of the worst things to hit.

Usually not a problem if you use a genuine Subaru oil filter due to their smaller size. But if you use one of the many other brands, they are a lot bigger and do stick down a bit.

[funkytown]

 Tony']

[quote name='pl0x said:

On the 2L cars a sandwich plate causes the oil filter to be the lowest part of the engine and sticks out/down,

and possibly one of the worst things to hit.

/quote]

Usually not a problem if you use a genuine Subaru oil filter due to their smaller size. But if you use one of the many other brands, they are a lot bigger and do stick down a bit.

or you get the kit that relocates the filter as well..

And assuming you dont have aftermarket headers which also dont hang any lower.

[pl0x]

 Tony']

[quote name='pl0x said:

On the 2L cars a sandwich plate causes the oil filter to be the lowest part of the engine and sticks out/down,

and possibly one of the worst things to hit.

/quote]

Usually not a problem if you use a genuine Subaru oil filter due to their smaller size. But if you use one of the many other brands, they are a lot bigger and do stick down a bit.

i c didn't know that, come to think of it i was using a other brand filter when testing the sand which plate out...

and yea you could but getting a filter relocation kit to only fit a oil temp sensor is overkill when a sump plug costs $5 max & $10-$20 to get tapped, just swap it in at next oil change.

Edit: Even sand which plate are over kill when just fitting a oil temp sensor, $50ish? still next to wait till next oil change, and even then they are the devil according to some

[Simon C]

Sandwich plate will allow you to run oil pressure sensor as well.

[pl0x]

 Simon C said:

Sandwich plate will allow you to run oil pressure sensor as well.

so will the oil gallery at the rear of the engine,

When mounted on sand which plate engine heat & vibrations can kill press senders (according to instructions, don't know if this is just to cover there ass etc tho) & weight of the oil press can break the screw in piece

I killed 2 oil press senders even when remote mounted, possibly because it wasn't fully secured.

[Pappu1]

bro where did u get the sump plug tapped for oit temp sessor?

a mate of mine was looking at getting it done on his wrx

[pl0x]

Was just some heavy machinery place in paeroa, just get the thread of your sender (think mine was 1/8 NPT) and ring/go round asking places if they can tap it.

Got a sump plug from pick a part, any subaru one will do

[Koom]

Plumbers/Gasfitters also use that threadsize alot.

[jacsmiley]

 Stoffa said:

nunganuganunga

hahaha i cant stop laughing almost fell off my seat!! yep ive done that twice!!