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Shamrock

I have the oil cooler. Its already on the car. My question is if I'm driving the car and the car stays within normal temps does that mean that everything is OK. I don't track the car. Haha no tracks here.

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Bart

theDreamer

Temps are just one of the things to look at.
With adding boost you will want to monitor the following things if you can:
-Water temp
-Intake temp
-AFR
-Boost/PSI
-Oil temp
-Oil pressure

Those are a general few things to keep an eye on to monitor your engine. If oil temps & water temps seem to be good then you are running fairly well temp wise, but at the same time you need to be look at AFR/Boost to make sure the kit and engine are outputting power correctly without harm to the engine.

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Chuck33079

Within a few pulls your temps are going to go up dramatically and come back down very slowly. The cooling system is barely adequate for the car stock. You're putting a heat exchanger in front of the radiator so instead of cool air passing over the oil cooler and radiator, it now gets warm air. Your oem cooling system will be performing worse than when it was stock. Sure, if you don't see any temp issues you can skip the cooling mods. My guess is that you'll be ordering them the week you get the car back from the shop.

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JWillis72

Chuck, what kind of temps were you seeing? My car stays around 180 and when I have been pushing it I see 200, were you seeing higher than that?

Chuck33079

Oil or water? My oil temps are rock solid, it's the water temps that fluctuate in the summer.

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JWillis72

Oil. I don't have a temp gauge yet for water. Gauges are driving me insane right now

Chuck33079

In the summer in Houston, you'll see the water temps move 2-3 dots if you're stuck in traffic. That's even with an upgraded radiator. The OP is in Israel, so he's got even more heat to deal with.

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JWillis72

Good point. Do you use water wetter?