lkeltner
Well-Known Member
I've also decided to keep my oil at stock thickness since I run this car around town all the time and spend most of the time out of boost anyway.So i'm not setting any track records but for those of you concerned about ESS and 20min track day sessions being too much on the car.
CHTs got up to 241*F when running in third gear for most of the track (staying in boost most of the time) shift to 4th in a few spots, back down to 215 no problems
stock GT PP1 radiator, stock diff, no cooling for diff, stock clutch with 55k miles on it
oh and my personal favorite bone stock 5w-20 motorcraft semi-synthetic oil. i believe what blows most of the OPGs in these cars are the ppl running higher oil but that's solely opinion based and unfounded without any research. to me it's like sucking a milkshake thru a straw instead of milk. i'll continue to run the stock oil with no oil cooler or anything different from stock configuration and i'll let you all know if/when i blow it up on track *shrugs*
i WILL say this tho, i feel like i'm one of the few guys left running stock 'headers' and stock cats so i think that's where my cooling issues are coming from. the LTH's with a removable cat setup for track purpose is probably a MUST HAVE at this point.
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