Oil cooler and guages setup


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I'm sat here at work on my phone researching away and thought it'd be easier to just ask :D

So how have people with guages set up their oil cooler? Are you running two sandwich plates or using the gauges from somewhere else?
I want a thermostatic sandwich plate, but would rather not double up but do want to run oil temp and pressure guages. What would be the best way to do this?
I've seen mishimoto do a plate with a thread for a guage, but googling people don't seem to be using plates like this?
 
My engine had double staked plates on.
I was skeptical at first but didn't seem to effect it at all.
I'll be using them again on the new build.
 
Yep used oil sandwich plate and oil cooler plate aswell on my race car makes no odds
 
I will be using 2 sandwich plates on mine. Already got my gauges in so will just add the thermostatic plate and be done with it :)
 
If your getting sump baffles welded in then get a boss(nut) welded in at the same time, then use a remote t piece for oil pressure gauge and dash light taken from the origional oil pressure switch hole,

That's the best way to do it in my mind as it minimises the area that needs to be filled with oil before pressure is achieved on initial cold starts when a lot of oil has drained back.
 
As b16 mini said. Get a 1/8 npt boss welded into the sump for oil temp and remote t piece for pressure. What a faff having 2 plates. Too me that's another place likely for a leak.

FWIW I had the Mocal thermo plate, with aeroquip lines and fittings. My oil pressure was on a t piece from the stock location on the block and the oil temp in the sump.
 
I have a mocal thermostatic sandwich plate for my oil cooler set up, then a Greddy sandwich plate for my oil pressure and oil temp spa design gauge.
Been on for a while now, done tracks days and it's all fine
 
I removed the OEM oil cooler and did the below mishimoto thermostatic sandwich plate, the -4AN line in the photo is for oil pressure only.
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I then sample oil temp at the drain plug:
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Nice work Tama.

FYI folks, my B16B ran oil temps in excess of 150 degrees in my race. It slowed me down out of worry.

Thats a totally standard engine, and ECU and was reached inside of three laps, so trackday people beware!

Brand new synthetic 50w oil - so it would have been 'okish' for a short stint at that temperature, and the engine is fine.
 
JohnTurbo said:
Nice work Tama.

FYI folks, my B16B ran oil temps in excess of 150 degrees in my race. It slowed me down out of worry.

Thats a totally standard engine, and ECU and was reached inside of three laps, so trackday people beware!

Brand new synthetic 50w oil - so it would have been 'okish' for a short stint at that temperature, and the engine is fine.
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John don't u run a oil cooler that's way to high .
 
Lol!! I know! First race with a temps gauge! Oil cooler "in the post"...
 
JohnTurbo said:
Nice work Tama.

FYI folks, my B16B ran oil temps in excess of 150 degrees in my race. It slowed me down out of worry.

Thats a totally standard engine, and ECU and was reached inside of three laps, so trackday people beware!

Brand new synthetic 50w oil - so it would have been 'okish' for a short stint at that temperature, and the engine is fine.
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That is unusually high, especially as you reached it with in 3 laps, do you have a oem heat exchanger? What radiator are you using? A oem or a proper full length?
 
Makes me wonder now what temps some people do get up to with a standard engine and cooling system on a average track day,
 
3 laps of the Nurburgring I hope lol
That does seem alittle excessive. To heat the water that high that fast on stock set up.
 
Ye i use a 1/8 npt t piece and take oil pressure from the standard oil pressure takeoff, i also have a take off welded into the sump for oil temperature. I have a obd2 techtom that reads ecu data and goves me live digital water temperature so dont have a guage for water temp. If not you can take it from the top pipe or the head
 
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