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Thanks for the advice.

I am VERY anal about warming my engines before pushing them in any way.

All oils are rated at 200-210 degrees, so if you're colder or hotter than that, your oil isn't operating at the weight it's rated at, and could be too thick, or too thin.

Coolant gauges always go right to "your fully warm" within a couple minutes, but it takes 10-15 minutes for the oil to actually get up to temp.

Snow White has an oil temp gauge, and she runs between 200-230 depending on how I'm driving.

I'm very aware that too cool oil is just as bad, or worse than too hot (within reason) on engines.

I always start Snow White, and let her warm up, idling, for 5 minutes or so, and then I drive VERY easy (under 2000rpm) until I see the oil temps up near 200, then I know it's "Go Time!"

My last car, (Subaru BRZ) ran on 0-20 (basically water) and cold idle pressures were around 120lbs. Once above 200 the idle pressures were very low, like 5 or 10lbs.

Many people on the Subaru forum reported being SO HAPPY after installing their oil coolers because the oil temps now never went over 160. I told them many times that's way too cool, and you want to run your oil temps at 200-220 optimally.

My old Porshe race car had an oil cooler that was bigger than most radiators, but it was built to run at 100% on a 100 degree day at the track. I literally taped over 90% of the cooler to get my oil temps up to 210 on the cooler days.