Oil pressure in AAN

[20vQC]

Guys..I'm very worried about something, I'm using a semisynth 10W40 from GreenStar, the oil when cold raises the pressure to 3bar from 600rpm...but when hot, at 80°C, at 850-900rpm the temp decreases to 1.7bar and the first alarm from oil pressure turns on... The engine has 160K kilometers, since I turned on the engne with the new oil, but old oil filter (still being the oil filter that the UrS4 had 5 years ago). That alarm freaked me the hell out! Any opinion?

[UrS4boy]

Opinion? He** yes. Change the freakin' oil filter for starters.

[20vQC]

hahaha okay okay ...

[M_GORDON]

My car when ys cold is >5bar and hot, around 1,35bar, it´s correct?

And one questión. Who is our oil temp? mine is everytime around 60-80ºC! Too cold, not?

[valjo]

use 10w60 oil from castrol.
i have about 1.5 bar at hot engine at idle. check oil presure sender too.

[M_GORDON]

And the temperature??

[S2central.net]

The oil temp guage on our cars is almost useless... Oil temp should be around water temp when cruising around... WIth hard driving you can see it rise to 110-120 - maybe 130 on bigger power machines... but the guage goes to like 170 which I dunno is useful for anyone. Just a little niggle of mine.

[M_GORDON]

A lot of words in "klingon"...

but ok, the temp is around 80ºC

[Jamo]

This is an english speaking forum after all.............

[Jamo]

The oil temp guage on our cars is almost useless... Oil temp should be around water temp when cruising around... WIth hard driving you can see it rise to 110-120 - maybe 130 on bigger power machines... but the guage goes to like 170 which I dunno is useful for anyone. Just a little niggle of mine.

That's got to be a Banzai challenge, who can get their oil temp to 170 c

Place your bets!

[Acidburn]

The oil temp guage on our cars is almost useless... Oil temp should be around water temp when cruising around... WIth hard driving you can see it rise to 110-120 - maybe 130 on bigger power machines... but the guage goes to like 170 which I dunno is useful for anyone. Just a little niggle of mine.

Stiglett going round combe had 130 on his, the car still went well but when I was watching his gauges out of interest on the way round the oil pressure dropped for a moment as he went thru the chicane, hence why he's after fitting an oil cooler.

That's got to be a Banzai challenge, who can get their oil temp to 170 c

Place your bets!

I did it on my 20v fwd on the way home from buying it, the seller told me it had a small leak in the aux rad which was a lie. It had a bigger hole in the main rad, I kept topping up water and checking the oil, stopping and letting it cool down but was running out of time to get to work.

I had the oil temp off the gauge, the water temp off the gauge and the oil pressure on tick over under 2 bar (close to 1 bar)

It got from just before hatfield tunnel to baldock outside stevenage and siezed up about 1 mile from where I was parking it.

I had no time to get a pickup and my only option was to drive it.

[Greenm3]

I have a Mocal oil cooler after seening 130+ on track, needed a new cooler anyway, but been running this for a while. I never see temps much over 70 whilst cruising and havent looked at it when giving it a bit. Is this not too good running the oil at these cool temps? Could just be the sender needs replaced though.
Oh and cold i have around 5bar, warm around 2 bar mayb a tad less, cruising warm 3-4 bar. HTH
Michael

[AndyP]

That's got to be a Banzai challenge, who can get their oil temp to 170 c

Place your bets!

I've seen 150 around Mallory in a forum members car, I told him to think about uprating the cooler!!