Tiwe

why choose oil pressure and water temperature over the oil temp and oil pressure set up (since there is water temp on the car already)?
i thought albert suggested oil pressure and oil temp because when your on the track you will be able to monitor the oil temperature and when it gets too hot you can give the car a rest. Whats the advantage of having a more accurate water temp?

Mannn

that's what i wanted to know as well... I know that the stock water temp reacts kinda late... by the time we see there are more than 3 bars in the water temp gauge in the cluster it's already too late.. but how different is knowing the Water temp to high versus knowing the oil temp is too high?

I know with the oil pressure .. it will drop when oil is too viscous which is already a sign of "too hot"

bon2k

maybe water has a lower boiling pt than oil?

Mannn

what effect does boiling point have in this? I thought it was really coolant.. not water... or am i wrong here?

matrix

It's not very granular. 3 bars has huge variation.

matrix

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mannn
what effect does boiling point have in this?

Mannn

right you are, Marco.. but that still doesn't answer my question...

why would someone pick Oil Temp over Water Temp.. or the other way around?

matrix

Mannn, with 3 n's....

Here is my take on it....as the oil heats up it thins out, if it gets too hot it will break down and you should see this as a drop in oil pressure.

Preventing the oil from overheating is the coolants job thus it is important to know how hot that is.

Your best bet is to go with Speedstar's recommendations....

Mannn

wasn't speedstar's recommendation Oil temp and Oil pressure??

so that's a redundant setup in the way you put in then... cuz when the oil is too hot... the pressure will drop anyway...

matrix

Don't know, I don't see that in this thread....