Why did the damage continue to happen after everything else was fixed?

if you scour a bearing it will not fix itself and just dies at a much faster rate than it normally would hence blown cooler damaged the smoth surface of the bearing, bearing degrades and produce little metal pieces, pieces eat bearing further, rinse and repeat.

you are aware by the time this light comes on your motor is basicly toast anyways OR you will always have that little thought in the back of your mind.... "i wonder if this leak caused any damage".

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If you have a catastrophic failure like an oil cooler line coming loose, how much time will it take for a noticeable oil pressure drop on a gauge versus the light?

On my NSX the oil pressure varied quite a bit based on engine RPM and VTEC engaged.

On a gauge, it will be instantaneous.

I assume you have a solution for that?? Do you offer an easy to install oil pressure gauge kit for our cars? If so I'm interested.

So, did you get the new shortblock installed?

Did tear apart the bad shortblock and take a look at the bearings?

Did you reinstall the possibly contaminated (with metal shavings) GTM oil cooler on the new engine?

the feed line on the cooler blew off so it never saw a single shaving you pop that line and bam no oil pressure right away so it isn't an issue of guage versus light here one second you have pressure the next it is just getting pumped straight out the side of the motor and will not reach ANY of the engine. Yeah the short block has been done already and (what was left of ) the thrust bearing was lying in the oil pan.

So the big question is... who had to fork out the bucks for the replacement short block & installation?

I do have a solution. We make a oil adapter plate that fits right in between your block and oil filter. This provides up to 4 ports so you can mount a temp sensor and oil pressure sensor.

you will need a M20x1.5 plate. here is a link

Oil filter adaptor plate-Sandwich adaptor Plate -Prosport Gauges

and our premium series gauges have a built in peak/warning so you dont have to constantly look at oil pressure. It will warn you and beep when you fall to low.

i am not sure if that is helpful since most oil cooler install are through the oil filter hole

I agree, for an oil cooler install you already need an adapter plate. I don't think you can put one adapter plate on top of another...

It would be nice if Prosport can offer a thermostatic adapter plate with connections for oil lines for the cooler and an oil pressure sensor port! Ryan, I'll PM you my address so you can send me a check for this great idea... :tup:

BUT WE DO! :) we offer our oil cooler kits with built in thermo stats and two port sensor holes.

Follow this link now :p Oil Cooler - Prosport Aluminum Oil cooler with built in thermostat

On a side note. i dont see it affecting anything if you were to put out adapter plate on with another oil cooler. The plate itself is only 2 inches thick and oil flows right through it.... Idk we havent tested this yet.

And I thought I had an original idea :icon17: Nice, I'll contact you about outside of this thread.