jbailer
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Wow that's quite a difference on the oil temp! With it that far off and being that high, I wonder if they were using CHT, trying to infer oil temp? I guess I could use ECT and that would be easy. I was thinking that the coolant would warm up faster than the oil because there is no water flow until the thermostat opens so the coolant would warm up faster. I'm not sure that's a good assumption though. I watched ECT and CHT once during a warm up and they stayed locked within 1* of each other until the thermostat opened. I would imagine the oil temp must be about the same. It just didn't show the oil temp hitting the beginning of the green area until 178*, when the thermostat opens so I guess I could just use ECT @ 178*.The biggest two will be coolant temp and oil pressure.
If you see your coolant going way up then so is your oil.
Some quick numbers
At a 100f trackday at its hottest I had coolant temps at
225F
275F for oil temp via Cobb and 218F for oil temp with my own gauge.
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