Sourced an Audi Oil Cooler

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Ouch! if I saw 140C I'd pull over and pray!

With my oil cooler I've never seen above 110C.

-Raffi

At 11:18 AM 3/12/2004, Brian Wagner wrote:
>Oil Temps (per a Regional VWoA service rep and Scirocco owner that runs in 
>a Tropical Climate (TX)) can be between 120C and 140C and not effect the 
>life of the engine.
>
>And was or is not uncommon to run 135C with a/c on in stop and go traffic.
>
>Brian
>
>
>
>Brad Sterling <bgsterling@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>The boiling temp of water/glycol IIRC is just below 230. If you are running
>you engine hard, or have high ambient temperatures, the ability of the
>coolant
>to remove the excess heat from the oil is greatly reduced.
>
>
>
>In my case running a 3a/jh 10.5:1 Compression engine @ 120'F using AC =
>120-130'c on the oil
>This is why I did this mod.
>
>
>Okay. That's cool. I'm not trying to start anything. Like I said, I was
>in regular 100+ heat and stop-n-go traffic without issues. If you're seeing
>higher temps, I can appreciate that you'd want to do something about it. It
>seems that some people have tried hard to keep oil temps so low, that
>they're running under 100'C. I had learned that you want to keep oil above
>100'C to boil off condensation and limit parasitic drag from thick, colder
>oil. You guys aren't seeing those kinds of temps, so it's a non-issue.
>
>-Brad
>'86 Scirocco 16v
>
>
>
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