Oil Temp

[stingerbeagle]

I like to leave my instrument cluster on the gauge with Oil Temp. What temp do you think I need to wait for before I can start going heavier on the throttle? I'm not talking about pedal to the floor, but maybe just going into sport mode and going half way on the pedal. 200 is the halfway point where it stabilizes but it takes a long time to get there.

 

[MerlintheMad]

I don't go by the oil temperature before driving aggressively: I wait until the engine temperature is well on the move. I'll try and remember where the oil temperature is, when the engine temperature is c. halfway to full operating temperature, and "return and report".

 

[MerlintheMad]

I have information: the oil temperature was c. 125F at c. halfway into full operating temperature, with outside (ambient) of c. 30F. I'm sure if it is the middle of the summer, the oil temperature is going to be quite a bit higher than 125F by the time the engine is halfway to full operating temperature. But that will have to wait; unless our Aussie friends want to conduct observations, "for science".

 

[stingerbeagle]

Thanks! 125F would be nice. Certainly much nicer than waiting until 200

So is your rationale that once you see the bar starting to move at a decent pace, that the oil is already at a reasonable operating temperature?

 

[MerlintheMad]

Looks that way. Halfway to full operating temperature is a decent point, I think, to allow yourself to get on it enough to maneuver in traffic. I still don't go WOT unless the engine has attained full operating temperature. This time, the oil temperature was hovering at c. 130 plus once the engine was at full operating temperature. If I had driven further I'm sure the oil would have warmed a lot more. But I've never looked at the oil temp in the winter before. So I don't know how high the oil temp gets when the air is this cold (today's ambient high was short of 32F). I know that in the summer the oil temp peaks at either side of 200; this is all normal driving, of course.