higdominator
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That is a good plan. Eventually you will end up where everyone else has gone before, which is running a decent viscosity and still getting it super hot on summer track days. I hit the yellow last weekend and thankfully had a good viscosity in the car to keep it happy. It was 90* and muggy and I was turning pretty decent times. If it weren't for traffic I would have likely overheated the car. A 5w20 would have been water at that point.That's what I was thinking as I watch these threads go round and round. If at the track you run at, at the intensity you drive at, and the oil temp gauge creeps up to yellow would it be a reasonable plan to move up a viscosity level and try again?
The best fix is a proper external oil cooler and a oil weight targeted to your estimated operating temps. With an oil cooler I will likely drop my oil weight back down, probably to a w30.
You want to run the least amount of viscosity as you can- that will be be what it needs to be on the track. The only reason many of us go up in viscosity is we don't have the means to keep these lower initial viscosity fluids from becoming too thin from the heat just yet.
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