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Old Feb 15, 2009 | 06:12 PM
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guys my oil temp is normally running around 88-90 degrees C (190F) but is now running at around 90-95DegreesC (194-203F). Now air temp here has increased a few degrees over the last week and the other day I changed from 10w40 to 15w50 fully synthetic oil.
Oil pressure and water temps are withing normal range.


Thanks for any help you can offer.
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 01:54 PM
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190F is rather hot, i sit at about 180 stop and go and about 150 on the freeway...running a mugen t-stat and full size fluidyne radiator..lowered coolant temp will result in lower oil temps imo..
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by ---SPEED-DEMON---
guys my oil temp is normally running around 88-90 degrees C (190F) but is now running at around 90-95DegreesC (194-203F). Now air temp here has increased a few degrees over the last week and the other day I changed from 10w40 to 15w50 fully synthetic oil.
Oil pressure and water temps are withing normal range.


Thanks for any help you can offer.
Your oil temps seem to be in normal range and I wouldn't worry about it. You want to get the oil up to about 200 degrees F to help boil any moisture out of it, which can lead to sludge.
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 02:51 PM
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agreed oil temp is fine. Normal is usually in the 200-210* range. Just to give you an idea my oil temp's here in Arizona summer time will hit 245-250* on the freeway with moble 0w40 syn. Your temps are fine
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