Jus' Silverstone 04 S2000

[Toddxxx]

Street:
Oil - 90-96
Water - 85-90

Track:
Oil - 120-125
Water - 85

[saru]

Street:
Oil - 90-96
Water - 85-90

Track:
Oil - 120-125
Water - 85

Thanks Todd. hmmm seems the oil is always around 65 deg on the street. I took it out on thursday and friday night while cruising through old pac and didn't see it get past 70 at all.

im guessing that 65 deg is just way too low and could be pretty bad for the motor?

what about oil pressure for street and track?

[plAythiNG]

Have you installed oil cooler yet? Where did you tap your gauges?

[Bluscreama]

If your oil is 65deg on street, I highly recommend you don't drive it until you get it sorted..
Oil has to be 80deg+


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[saru]

Have you installed oil cooler yet? Where did you tap your gauges?

The sensor was taped into one of those bungs that go into the oil sandwich plate. Is this location okay? Dedy at Topone said it was okay.

If your oil is 65deg on street, I highly recommend you don't drive it until you get it sorted..
Oil has to be 80deg+

Thanks man. I was a bit worried when I kept seeing 65 deg. I thought that was way too low.

I'll have to go back to dedy and ask him.


Thanks guys

[plAythiNG]

Yes, teh sandwich plate is perfectly fine.

You didnt say if you had the oil cooler installed or not?

My S2000 has similar temps to Todd on the street;

oil - 85-93
water - 78-83

I'm going to jump the gun here and say you are running an oil cooler hence the lower than expected temps. Let us know if you are running the cooler or not, but most likely the way to solve this is to run a block off plate in front of the cooler!

[saru]

Yes, teh sandwich plate is perfectly fine.

You didnt say if you had the oil cooler installed or not?

My S2000 has similar temps to Todd on the street;

oil - 85-93
water - 78-83

I'm going to jump the gun here and say you are running an oil cooler hence the lower than expected temps. Let us know if you are running the cooler or not, but most likely the way to solve this is to run a block off plate in front of the cooler!

My mistake, the oil cooler is installed like you said. Would should I use to cover the cooler? Or what do you guys usually do?

Have you guys installed your sensors in different locations to mine?

[plAythiNG]

What sandwich plate are you running? From the look of it, it looks like there is a thermostat, whe does it allow full flow / what temp?

Where is your oil temp and oil pressure gauges tapped?

If you look at my build thread, the biggest issue in setting up an oil cooler complete with gauge monitoring is palcement of the oil temp!

I'm yet to finalise my install (but very close) because of this oil temp issue.

If you look at my thread, for a short period of time, I had it tapped into the sump where I experienced incredibily volatile temps especially in heavy as shit rain+highway driving.

Im going to be tapping the oil temp line on the ENGINE OUT side/ sandwich plate via greddy.

For reference when I had my larger 19row cooler installed and tapping at the sump, in street driving I was sitting around 75degrees from memory.

For you, once we establish

-what sandwich plate you have, with what size thermostat
-where your oil temp sensor is tapped
-where your oil cooler is fitted

we can see how to make sure you are getting to optimal oil temps which as Charbs mentioned is over 80deg!

For now, it looks to be too much flow of oil going through the cooler and thus lower than optimal temps. Prior to cooler, as per Todd/mine results your oil temp should be around the 90degree mark. Looks like a block off plate will fix this! but depending how your cooler is mounted, it might be difficult to remove/replace etc

[saru]

What sandwich plate are you running? From the look of it, it looks like there is a thermostat, whe does it allow full flow / what temp?

Where is your oil temp and oil pressure gauges tapped?

If you look at my build thread, the biggest issue in setting up an oil cooler complete with gauge monitoring is palcement of the oil temp!

I'm yet to finalise my install (but very close) because of this oil temp issue.

If you look at my thread, for a short period of time, I had it tapped into the sump where I experienced incredibily volatile temps especially in heavy as shit rain+highway driving.

Im going to be tapping the oil temp line on the ENGINE OUT side/ sandwich plate via greddy.

For reference when I had my larger 19row cooler installed and tapping at the sump, in street driving I was sitting around 75degrees from memory.

For you, once we establish

-what sandwich plate you have, with what size thermostat
-where your oil temp sensor is tapped
-where your oil cooler is fitted

we can see how to make sure you are getting to optimal oil temps which as Charbs mentioned is over 80deg!

For now, it looks to be too much flow of oil going through the cooler and thus lower than optimal temps. Prior to cooler, as per Todd/mine results your oil temp should be around the 90degree mark. Looks like a block off plate will fix this! but depending how your cooler is mounted, it might be difficult to remove/replace etc

I'm using the Greddy sandwich plate that came with the oil cooler kit. From memory I believe it has a thermostat, but unsure of what size.

I took a quick pic of the sensors installed. Does this seem okay? Are the lines installed in the correct positions?


The oil cooler is mounted at the front.


I took this pic on Thursday around 2pm in stop-start traffic. Thats the hottest I've seen it get.


Also last night I went for another drive down old pac to see what temps it would get, and it stayed around the 50-55deg mark. I'm actually getting a bit worried that the temps are very low. On the highway back home it reached 48deg. It was pretty chilly last night, but i'm guessing I need to cover the oil cooler in the winter time?

I've read your thread, and I've also read from memory you helping out another guy on SAU with their oil cooler issue. Thanks for your help!

[plAythiNG]

Yes, myself and the SAU member Justin had experienced same issues. All to do with the temp sensor issue.

Anyways, have a read of this post I just put up HERE

but a real quick summary to why you are seeing lower than expected/optimal oil temp:

- your oil cooler is installed all well and correct
- Your temp sensor is reading/giving your temps after the cooler has done its job and cooled oil. So your average temp of around 50degrees is the temp of oil after the cooler has done its thing. Now as per mine and Todd's posts showing that average street conditions the oil temp should be around the 90deg mark. Pretty efficient cooler you have there, where its managed to reduce temps by 40 odd degrees! where to be mixed with the remaining hot oil should see a nice reduction in temps. I'm jumping the gun ehre, but expecting it to be around 80-85!


Moving forward, I'd suggest you simply switch the ports around, IE put the temp sensor on the bottom port, and oil pressure up top! but its up to u! Also possibly looking at a block off plate especially for the street if your temps are below 80 deg. The downside of the greddy cooler is once heated up, ALL oil will be directed through the cooler so a block off plate might be a pretty good idea! we should meet up and see how to put a plate in for easy removal for spirirted runs, but putting back on for regular street duty.

[saru]

Thanks for the help today Alex. Nice to meet another passionate s2k member.

[TAM R]

Hey listen..... where the updates?

[scrowetom]

Hey listen..... where the updates?

I second this!

[saru]

Thought I'd update with what I recently got for the car.

Got the center cup holder cover in black and the other garnish that goes around the rear demister. The silver started getting annoying in the sun lol. Was trying to find the CR cover, but that seems to be quite a task.



Ended up getting Dedy to install a Blackvue DR650GW-1CH with the Power Magic Pro. Quality is pretty good, even at night with very low light. Highly recommend this camera.




At the same time I got Dedy to put in ASM headers.




And finally today I received a package after 2 months of waiting. It was either between the Ohlins DFV and these ones. So I ended up getting the Aragosta Type S. I've always wanted them, so I took the plunge. Also got J's Racing front camber joints. Hopefully it will be installed soon.

[Young]

Which place do you recommend for dashcams? I need one. :/