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Old 04-30-2012, 12:45 PM
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What is people's opinion of the oil cooling on a stock S2000 when used on track? Given that on track the revs will mostly be 6 - 9K then the oil is going to get hot. I've seen a few people have added oil temp gauges and was wondering how you find the temps are on track - is the standard car ok and is it only when adding more bhp that additional oil cooling is advised?
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I did over 250 track miles per day at Spa last year in 25+C temperatures. All was perfectly fine (standard car except for baffled sump, only bough as I was using R888s).

This is a good watch if you're worried.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBGaqLQBnUM[/media]


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I don't bother on mine.

Oil cooler if you are doing a lot of track work or extended sessions.
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I got one fitted to mine as I do about half a dozen track days a yr. Probably overkill to be honest but won't do any harm. Got one with a thermostat so if the oil isn't warm it doesn't go through the cooler.

I've been reading this series of articles on Moto IQs project s2000 http://www.motoiq.com/magazine_artic...l-cooling.aspx

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Some good links in this thread, thanks for sharing.

My findings are shadowed by the posts above.
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