I fear the worst.......
06-30-2010, 04:15 PM
#51
I'd be more concerned with oil temps and not water temps. The water just helps cool the engine down which in point, is really attempting to cool the oil down. The end goal would be for cooler oil to be run so I'd think if you ran water through the oil coolers instead to cool the water down more, then that's possibly like shooting yourself in the foot since you just made oil cooling even worst..
wut?
06-30-2010, 04:26 PM
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Don't need pics - it's just the stock oil cooler in the stock location but hooked up to the water system ....
here
https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...0&postcount=35
here
https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...0&postcount=35
My oil temps got to about 220F max on a hot day of hard charging canyon driving (300 miles) but I have a 28" Fluidyne oil cooler.
06-30-2010, 04:37 PM
#57
I'd be more concerned with oil temps and not water temps. The water just helps cool the engine down which in point, is really attempting to cool the oil down. The end goal would be for cooler oil to be run so I'd think if you ran water through the oil coolers instead to cool the water down more, then that's possibly like shooting yourself in the foot since you just made oil cooling even worst..
06-30-2010, 04:52 PM
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Antifreeze cools the housings. Oil cools the rotors. You need both and should ignore neither with the oil cooling ability to be at least 1/3 of your total cooling. Obviously the radiator accounting for the other 2/3. This doesn't necessarily mean size but rather heat rejection ability. If the radiator has a fan, the oil coolers should too. If everything is done properly, oil and water temps will stay within about 5 degrees of each other with up to a 10 degree differential under extreme use. If the oil temps get farther away than that, the oil cooling is inadequate. If the water temps get higher than that then the radiator cooling ability is inadequate. If they both stay near each other but they somehow hit 250*F, both are inadequate. If you can only get temps up to 200*F then both have plenty of capacity. You get the idea.
06-30-2010, 05:14 PM
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Antifreeze cools the housings. Oil cools the rotors. You need both and should ignore neither with the oil cooling ability to be at least 1/3 of your total cooling. Obviously the radiator accounting for the other 2/3. This doesn't necessarily mean size but rather heat rejection ability. If the radiator has a fan, the oil coolers should too. If everything is done properly, oil and water temps will stay within about 5 degrees of each other with up to a 10 degree differential under extreme use. If the oil temps get farther away than that, the oil cooling is inadequate. If the water temps get higher than that then the radiator cooling ability is inadequate. If they both stay near each other but they somehow hit 250*F, both are inadequate. If you can only get temps up to 200*F then both have plenty of capacity. You get the idea.
06-30-2010, 05:26 PM
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I found two solutions:
1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJh8eByMW_o
Add-on fan that mounts behind the oil cooler to suck in air over the cooler. Noisy little fcker...
www.carboninmotion.com
( Out of country but check out their site )
2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfw0r9hW3JQ
Decreases turn on temp to 195*F and then shuts off after bay ambient hits 185.
1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJh8eByMW_o
Add-on fan that mounts behind the oil cooler to suck in air over the cooler. Noisy little fcker...
www.carboninmotion.com
( Out of country but check out their site )
2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfw0r9hW3JQ
Decreases turn on temp to 195*F and then shuts off after bay ambient hits 185.
Last edited by SpencerM1; 06-30-2010 at 05:28 PM.
06-30-2010, 05:34 PM
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Mazsport is out of business and the scumbag who ran that company also makes the fan kit which is also not available. Just search Mazsport, you will learn a lot, haha.
06-30-2010, 05:48 PM
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06-30-2010, 07:06 PM
#70
As hot as I've seen mine get, I beg to wonder, why they didn't add the 2nd one. It would be the 1st time one would have to think, JDM FTL.
Last edited by Vlaze; 06-30-2010 at 07:13 PM.
