[s-cars] Oil Temperature

[Brett Dikeman]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Tom Green <trgreen at comcast.net> wrote:

> At the turbo, the oil probably reaches the flash point, so that can't be good.

I'm not sure what the relevance of flash points are, but the flash
point of 15w50 Mobil1 is 235C; 455F.  The coke point of most
synthetics is even higher.  In a water-cooled-center-section k24, you
think the oil is heated by a differential of more than 100C from the
coolant?  These cars were designed to work just fine on dino oil...

One would think oil sees the hottest surfaces around the
pistons/rings/cylinder wall.

Brett