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Reply With QuoteI prefer it to be above 180F before i nail it.
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150
165
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200+
Oil temp before nailing it?
How hot do you get your oil before you do serious revs?
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I prefer it to be above 180F before i nail it.
as long as i got oil pressure i'm good to go!
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Not a good idea Mic, if you have an external oil cooler; you're liable to burst it.You want to get it at least to where you can see a temperature indication on your gauge.
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Callaway Twin Turbo's require the oil temp to be 165 degrees before driving in a boost condition.
I believe coolant will be around 196 when that happens?Originally posted by Ken
Not a good idea Mic, if you have an external oil cooler; you're liable to burst it.
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I make sure the "LO" changes to a digital figure before driving the car and let the coolant hit about 60+ before hard acceleration. By this point the oil temp and viscosity should allow safe revving. Mind I keep all gauges reading in metric values.
180 and not before
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My dad would only let me punch his ferrari after the oil temp was higher than the coolant temp. I use that as my guideline with my 87 and chevelle. On the corvette, this usually occurrs in the high 160's
Just got my Vette so I am conservative, but I wait till above 150..
before I would get on it.
That's a nice sig picture of your blue Vette, you should try & size it up a little though.
I always make sure the car is hot before "gettin on it". 150 oil temp at least!
I got around 180-200
extensive testing by smokey yunick for G.M. conclusively proved that most engines make the best power in the 220F-240F oil temp range and that oil protects the bearings best at temps in the 230f-250f range,most mineral oils start to break down at about 260f so synthetic oil is the better choice if wide swings in engine temps durring competion are normal with your engine set up. do what you want to, but Ill take SMOKEYs advise gathered from THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF DYNO testing over theory any day!
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