Reply to "How should I be driving my engine?"

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Originally posted by mike the snake:

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.

Simpler than that, use a thermostat on the oil cooler lines.

Most people are WAY over cooled and the oil stays around 175 to 180.

I say 210 to 220 is just about right. This will also boil out a lot of the moisture in it too.

That and a properly designed PCV system which is not easy to do on an IR manifold with a not very strong idle signal.

I've also been able to pick up a couple of inches at idle when the oil is hot.

What do you do with the seven dwarfs?

2/5/159:24 AM

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