Oil temps: 335 comparitive observation.

2011 Nismo#91 · 05-21-2014, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by juld0zer

It's a shame that our cars cant operate normally at the same oil temps as other modern performance or everyday cars. embarassing even. but there isn't much we can do aside from prolonging our enjoyment by investing in oil to air oil coolers.

How many Toyota Camrys or Honda Civics come with an oil temp gauge? These cars can and do overheat their oil when driving under severe conditions (city driving, spirited driving, etc). The only difference is they don't know they are doing it, ignorance is bliss.

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Originally Posted by juld0zer

It's an epoxy type glue. You can also buy the adhesive pads from some computer parts suppliers but i haven't seen any that would hold up to the elements. Speaking of which, computer heatsinks are really cheap.

Please don't start gluing computer heatsinks to the car.

kenchan · 05-21-2014, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by 2011 Nismo#91

How many Toyota Camrys or Honda Civics come with an oil temp gauge? These cars can and do overheat their oil when driving under severe conditions (city driving, spirited driving, etc). The only difference is they don't know they are doing it, ignorance is bliss.

Please don't start gluing computer heatsinks to the car.

b15 · 05-21-2014, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by 2011 Nismo#91

How many Toyota Camrys or Honda Civics come with an oil temp gauge? These cars can and do overheat their oil when driving under severe conditions (city driving, spirited driving, etc). The only difference is they don't know they are doing it, ignorance is bliss.

Please don't start gluing computer heatsinks to the car.

In my opinion, the high oil temps don't bother me, it's the fact the car could go into limp mode due to the inability to control temps while being run hard. While the minority, this is a sports car and there will be people that track it and/or just drive it hard. That's where I feel Nissan missed the ball. I'm sure many cars run high oil temps, and the drivers have no idea, but they aren't going into limp mode otherwise you'd hear about it. They also aren't driven as hard as a 370z.

And as a side note, My 2008 Altima with the VQ35DE had an oil cooler. Same one Nissan probably threw on the 2012+ 370z