thermostats

Originally Posted by BigBlock69RS

90% of your engine wear is startup until the time the car is up to temp (all the engine tolerances are off). 160* thermostat ensures the car takes longer to come up to temp by opening the themostat before tha car is up to operating tempurature.

It's a bandaid at best for cooling issues that dramatically reduces your available engine life.

Factory and 160 degree thermostat will warm up the exact same up to 160. My water temp sets at 185 which is fine and won't cause excessive wear. My fan settings are aggressive so I could keep the water warmer if I was worried about it.

[White_SS/RS]

Originally Posted by willc1980

awesome, thats good info, anyone make a good aftermarket oil cooler??

I haven't done mine yet but I'm most likely going with this adapter
http://www.improvedracing.com/cooler...80f-p-209.html and I know fluidyne makes excellent coolers. Basically you'll need to piece it together, I don't know of anyone making a kit. I plan on getting a large cooler, but have it thermostatically controlled. Too low of oil temp isn't good either. I'd like it to stay right around 200-210.

Hopefully this will also slightly lower water temps too since it won't be trying to cool that 270* oil like it does now.

[willc1980]

Originally Posted by White_SS/RS

I haven't done mine yet but I'm most likely going with this adapter
http://www.improvedracing.com/cooler...80f-p-209.html and I know fluidyne makes excellent coolers. Basically you'll need to piece it together, I don't know of anyone making a kit. I plan on getting a large cooler, but have it thermostatically controlled. Too low of oil temp isn't good either. I'd like it to stay right around 200-210.

Hopefully this will also slightly lower water temps too since it won't be trying to cool that 270* oil like it does now.

so you would use that and some line to a small radiator and find a place to mount it behind the coolant radiator??

[White_SS/RS]

Originally Posted by willc1980

so you would use that and some line to a small radiator and find a place to mount it behind the coolant radiator??

Yes, something like this http://www.fluidyne.com/products_oil-coolers.html attached with -AN lines, but you want the cooler in front of the radiator as close to it as possible (back to back) to reduce turbulence. Turbulence kills the amount of airflow through the cores.

[Cuda7050]

Originally Posted by BigBlock69RS

90% of your engine wear is startup until the time the car is up to temp (all the engine tolerances are off). 160* thermostat ensures the car takes longer to come up to temp by opening the themostat before tha car is up to operating tempurature.

It's a bandaid at best for cooling issues that dramatically reduces your available engine life.

Revving the engine to redline, drag racing, high performance driving days, headers, tune, cold air intakes, high lift cams, superchargers, 3.91 gears, hammering the brakes into a corner, burn outs, popping the clutch, drag radials and 160 degree thermostats will all cause premature wear to your automobile. I am either guilty or want to be guilty of abusing me beloved Camaro in all of these ways.

Originally Posted by Cuda7050

Revving the engine to redline, drag racing, high performance driving days, headers, tune, cold air intakes, high lift cams, superchargers, 3.91 gears, hammering the brakes into a corner, burn outs, popping the clutch, drag radials and 160 degree thermostats will all cause premature wear to your automobile. I am either guilty or want to be guilty of abusing me beloved Camaro in all of these ways.

haha... You honestly have a very good point.