^No shit right...ugh...lesson learned

so they physically removed them or did you?

I took the cooler to them. I had my Fluidyne cleaned before I installed it just to be safe since it was used.

crap, should have done that while I had the motor out

Too late now, :lol:

maybe I can just take 1 cooler line off and vacuum the oil out of the rest of the lines then just dissconnect everything for a semi-clean disassembly.

I am serious in a joking sort of way

I always seem to make a mess when I mess with the oil coolers no matter what steps I take to keep it clean :lol:

well when I get my DIY oil cooler lines made this will be part of the process :)

That would be ideal, the cleaning doesn't take long at all, same day service.

dont go and do all that yet---check the outside of the oil coolers to see if they get hot first to make sure the thermostats in them are working. If they are getting hot-then cleaning may not be of help.
when you go to synthetic oil the temps will cool off some too.

Thermostats? We don't need no stinking thermostats :lol:

yea they get hot and the cooler fan I have on the driver side cools that bad boy off quite nicely

that is part of the reason I am confident the guage is jacked because everything else is working fine and temping as expected

I say for now--dont worry about it. get the synthetic in asap. 230 oil temps are not at a danger will robinson alarm level.
mechanical gauges are usually more accurate than electrical on a consistant basis. Electrical can be tempermental. I dont think the gauge is wrong.
If you want too you can test it by putting the sender into a pot of hot water while measuring the temp of the water with a cooking thermometer.
I too have a small spal fan on the drivers side cooler--it will reduce my oil temps about 10F in slow traffic.
You do have the front clip back on right?

I will get Syn in there tonight, I am actually thinking of following my wife to houston this weekend to get 400miles on it :)

the reason I think the guage is broken is the fact that it makes random and very wide swings in temp

car is put back together but I need to duct the spal fan to keep the heat out of the bay

you guys got me thinking yesterday. on my way home i noticed my prosport water temp gauge and my cobb were ~10-12deg different, cobb being higher. my oil temp was about 10deg cooler than w.t. on the gauges also. this was at highway cruise and my gauges are elec

^ interesting. where is your prosport adapter?

oil press/temp are in the rb filter sandwich plate. wt is in a replacement pipe between the rad and engine

Hey Houston if you swing by my casa or somewhere close I'll give you some premix bottles to distribute. I live close to hwy6 and westpark tollway

sweet deal. I will hook you up with some of that expanded metal you wanted

I will let you know if I drive, the wife my prefer I didnt. typically I do all the driving :p

yep--sounds like the mechanical gauge may be messed up?- probably was bent to much and a small gas leak from the tube occured or something?

to 200 mph --the prosport/obdII sensors may be a little different. the acceptable error % I think is 5 degrees or so. One thing that could be happening is your thermostat bypass may not be closing tightly? IDK

well its not too far off. yesterday was about 90deg out and very humid, the highest my wt got to was 194. recently got mizu rad, hoses, all new oem coolant hoses that didnt come with the mizu ones, mazmatr wp and t stat. the splash shields behind my oil coolser are opened up a bit more also.

where did you order the coolant hoses (I have the Rad hoses from Pettit) but I cant find all the other "smaller diameter" hoses (well not yet anyway).


Yea, OD....my coolant is rock solid. Does the OT guage work like a thermocouple (or whatever is in a H2O Heater). I was very delicate on how I installed it and whatnot:squint:

Is it starting on it's own?

Yes he said it was like 2 pages ago.

I know he got it started a couple of times, just was wondering if it was consistently. Cool!

So when is the Supercharge going on?

couldnt find aftermarket ones for a good price so i had my friend that works at a mazda dealership order them for me. mazda has a warehouse about seven miles from my house