Everyone with oil temp issues

travisjb · 10-17-2009, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Room42

New owner and member so my bad if this was already threaded. Obviously reading about the oil temps issue everywhere on the Web. Seeing many posts about track day problems/road test situations but can't get a good read on whether its a problem for daily drivers? I'm still in break-in so not experiencing issue yet but live in South Florida where air temps will stay fairly high year-round. Hate to think an oil cooler would void warranty, but if daily driving in hi temps and/or highway miles put oil temps over the top, will need to consider it.

Thx

everyone has an opinion, and after experiencing a lot of these issues and fixing it, here's mine... for daily driving, if you have any three of the following you are likely to see temps over 260F and prob limp mode... just 1 or 2 then no worries!

- aggressive driving on the street, or lots of high RPM e.g., 1st/2nd/3rd in traffic
- driving over very steep gradients, 6+ degree continuous
- driving in very hot temperatures, 110+F
- manual transmission

The last one is controversial with some folks, but as it turns out if you have a manual transmission, you're much more likely to experience overheating... See data below from our forum survey.... We have basically zero reports of limp mode on the street with automatic transmissions, and very few reports of temps over 260F

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