do you suggest using oil coolers?

how far can you go without one?
please reply.....

 

For a street car, no.
For a drag car, no.
For an autocross car, maybe.
For a road race car, yes.

 

wut would be the determining factor for those reasons?

 

I run a turbo, and my turbo needs cooler oil, hell yes I would get an oil cooler if I could afford one right now. If your car sees extra heat from hi compression or forced induction or even any performance modifier that causes higher temperature I would get one. I would also get one for a street car, It improves oil efficiency because it doesn't break down as fast.

 

I base this on the CRX I race and those of others that race. Run an oil temp gauge like I have done and you will see that you dont need a cooler. The sweet spot where your oil is most efficient is between approx 200-250 degrees. On the street, I've never ever been able to get the oil hotter than 180'. When autocrossing on a very hot day, the highest I ever got the temp was 220'. This is all WITHOUT an oil cooler.

Drag guys dont usually bother with them either since they only heat up the oil for a short period of time.

 

Does anyone have the temps of a turbo car?

 

My water temps sit around 210-230 degrees usually. It's hot still in my eyes. Too hot in fact. I am looking to get it maybe around 190-210 degrees, thats my goal because my car suffers from being black in TX. I get heat soak like no tomorrow. Given where I live, the car gets hot very fast.

 

I was talking with an ITR owner that put a sweet set up on. He droped 50 deg. F from just this setup. His temps were also over 300 deg f. Oil temp. You need one for track work. Street driving is a different story

 

Would it be bad to put one on a street car though? I will be finishing up my turbo,but I have an oil cooler sitting in the garage that I can put on. Will it hurt oil flow? I don't think it will though since doesn't seem to have much restrictions (old oil that was sitting in it could be blown out with my breather through both ends).

 

Do it if you are doing racing or HPDEs...or live in a hot climate and you drive with "spirit"

Check out the links in my sig for the install in my R. You can do it for less than I did...but I track the crap out of my car, so I wanted a perfect system...it has 17k miles and 90% are to the track, at the track, and from the track.

So a cooler is a must for me.

Hope this helps