<VV> Oil temp

[Joel McGregor]

Bob,  Is that something new?  I don't know of anything that uses more than a 195 thermostat and they generally run close to that.  The hottest fan switch I've seen is 230 and that seemed way too hot.
Joel McGregor

-----Original Message-----
From: VirtualVairs [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of BobHelt--- via VirtualVairs
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Oil temp

Mark,
I think that you will find that modern cars use a 50/50 mix of coolant and water with a 15psi pressure cap resulting in coolant temperatures running up to  250 degrees F. And with these coolant temps, the oil temp also runs up close to  these.
Bob Helt
 
 
In a message dated 10/26/2015 10:45:43 A.M. US Mountain Standard Tim, virtualvairs at corvair.org writes:

Most  dino oils work great in water pumpers as oil temps rarely could ever get  above even  180-200, due to water cooling  but our air cooled  engines get the oil temps there almost every drive.

Mark  Durham