Hi,

I'm very new to the s2000 and was wondering if anyone had installed an oil temperature gauge and if so does anyone know how long does it take for the oil to get to its normal operating temperature? I've always been extremely cautious with cold cars and not revving high until I'm certain that the everything is up to normal temps so was just wondering if it's similiar to the water temp guage or does it take far longer to heat up?

 

It takes quite a while, maybe after 10 minutes you'd be at 85/95'c which is currently my normal operating temp as it seems.

Water and oil both heat at different pace on my car. It probably would be different on yours as the oil cooler has a water line running through it, mine is removed though as I use it to bypass through my turbo, so maybe the oil and water temperatures would be more parallel.

Joeh

 

As a rule of thumb, oil takes far longer to warm up.

Once you have three bars on the temp guage, it ought to be out of the danger zone. But it's better to increase the rev limit gradually therefter, rather than immediately gunning it, providing it's safe to do so.

 

I'm no thermodynamicist, so this is pure conjecture - I suspect it depends what temp you're starting from.

The colder the starting point, the greater the time difference.

 

I have an Oil Temperature Gauge, located in a filter sandwich plate, retaining only the OEM oil cooler.

The oil takes far longer to get up to temperture than the water gauge. I'd agree with Joeh, with just normal driving (as you would from cold) it can be about 10mins, a bit quicker if you are straight onto a dual carriageway or motorway and sticking at 70mph. I also see normal running temp at between 90 and 100 degc.

Gav

 

That confirms my suspicions and I shall continue taking it very easy with no vtec until she's definitely 100% warmed up. I consider 3 bars still very cold so no chance of me gunning it when it's still that cold. Thanks for all the responses.

 

IIRC there are some non OEM/oil gauge mods you can make even apart from fitting a temp gauge. 3 bars is next to useless as an indicator in truth.

Dig around on the US 'mech' sub forum.

Or try the search funtion

 

The S will cleverly limit the revs till it's safely warmed up.

 

Can't you use the OBDII port and a laptop/android phone running Torque to get oil temps? Never done it, so don't know, but my mate with a MG-TF can do it.

 

There is no temperature sensor fitted as standard, so the OBDII port can't output any value for you.

@richmc, its not THAT clever, because of the above.