2012s on lots....where are the oil coolers?

chuckd05

350z's had basically the same oil cooler in them, and they decided to not give it to the 370z.

Very odd because Nissan had to know the oil temps got hotter than they should while developing the car.

350z's also didnt have an oil temperature gauge to my knowledge...

So its like Nissan said .... lets spend the money on an oil temperature gauge (so people can not let there oil get too hot), but we'll do that with the money we saved from removing the $30 oil cooler....

not sure why the vq37 runs oil hotter than the 35de or 35hr other than the lack of that oc they now added...

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I will wait for the future reports.

I speculate that this O/C will work fine in traffic, but still require more when pushed.

Now I await the answer.

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Pharmacist

actually it's the vvel. The swinging lever arms on top of the valves that go back and forth generate a lot of friction and heat. That's why the vq37 generates proportionately more heat than many other engines, and that's part of the reason why nissan uses diamond like coating and nano particles in ester oil, to try and reduce the friction.

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ClevelandCWRU

Not actually true...Nanoparticles don't even play a role here, chemistry and some physics; it's chemical compatibility between the coating and an additive in the oil. Nissan's engineers and tribologists who worked on their Hydrogen free DLC coating used in the VQ37 and its relationship with the "ester oil" published their research. I do not have the rights to redistribute specifically what their findings were, but they have been widely recognized for their success reducing valvetrain friction. In fact, they were able to achieve friction levels in the "superlow" regime (coefficient of friction <0.01) at the boundary condition...on par with the rolling contact friction level of needle roller bearings.

This is of course, assuming the engine is being run with the recommended ester oil. Other oils can (and do) still perform well in this engine, but the "magic" doesn't happen unless the specially matched oil is used. Use whatever oil you want, you won't be harming your engine either way, but it was designed to use the ester oil (which in turn was designed by Nissan to be used specifically in engines using a H-Free DLC...yes, they did actually engineer this oil blend, can't say who manufactures it). The benefits of the ester oil aren't necessarily capturable in the traditional UOA, and it's also not a super-long service life blend either so it's not surprising to be at all that the oil doesn't perform spectacularly in UOA. The nerd in me says to use the ester oil, but change it more frequently you would your typical high-performance synthetic.

There's countless threads here and elsewhere filled with misinformation about how their ester oil and VVEL work (or don't work), as someone who has thoroughly read (and has the education to understand) their research (before I even bought a 370Z), what Nissan's accomplished is quite impressive on a scientific level, let alone commercializing the technology and applying it to production internal combustion engine.

Ok, end rant...sorry for getting off topic, back to the oil cooler!

wstar

Having logged and monitored my oil and water temps in the past, it seems like our water temps have a lot more headroom than our oil temps do in most conditions. In other words, it's always seemed that the radiator had more cooling capacity left on the table, and the problem was just that there's not much that can do to help the oil temps (since the only xfer between the two is through the engine block).

The oil:air coolers we've been adding to the cars directly cool the oil at the expense of cutting into the cold airflow budget of the radiator, and still the radiator system copes fine on temps (at least in part because keeping the oil cooler reduces the load on the system in general). Any sort of oil:water interface is only going to increase the thermal coupling between the two bringing them more into balance and keeping everything cooler.

The small unit at the filter may not be "enough" cooling to track without additional oil cooling (because it doesn't look big enough to transfer enough heat between the two), but I definitely think it will help, and that it will reduce the size requirements for any additional oil:air cooling needed while also removing some of the warmup problems we have today with just oil:air.

Getting your oil to 280 is going to cause problems regardless, and the point of this is to make that less likely than before, not to make 280F oil temps sustainable or tolerable.

The big real-world data point in favor of this system is AM Performance's track system. They're using a slightly larger and better-designed oil:water interface, on a slightly better radiator, and running in long hard real race conditions without additional oil:air cooling.

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I'd like to see a dyno test. What you are saying basically amounts to: If you run Ester oil, it's like installing roller rockers.

Well roller rockers are worth about 10-15bhp at this level, so lets see some proof on the dyno. Run Ester for 1500 miles and dyno, then run Mobil 1 for 1500 miles and dyno again. SAE corrected both times. Then drain the Mobil 1, put the ester back in, and roll it back on the dyno and see if the power level goes back up after the car cools down and is run again after the oil change.

THEN I will be a believer.

ClevelandCWRU

I have no personal stake in this, I just happen to know a bit about how it works.

If you have access to the Tribology International journal, you'll be able to read the methodology and results for yourself. Hell, they even spell out the name of the chemical compound and the base oil composition by wt.% so you can tell yourself whether or not the the components that make the ester oil effective are in whatever flavor of oil you like to run.

JSME has reviewed the work and recognized Nissan and the researchers behind this.

PM me for publication information if you'd like to read about it for yourself. I can't post articles online, as it is protected information.

wstar

Are you referring to this paper? http://www.sfplayers.com/blog/dlcPap...ernational.pdf

We've seen it before.

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Red__Zed

Did the 350 have this style cooler? I couldn't remember for sure...haven't looked at one in quite a while.

Because I know the 350 was prone to pretty high temps on the track as well....though not as severe as the 370.