Re: Unlabelled Gauge markings

["Les Lampman" <llampman@islander.whidbey.net>]

my V8 just moves off the bottom mark during the winter. in the summer 
I suspect about 80 degrees C. (I like 90, from my aircraft days), but 
with the V8 the oil cooler (my reading of the manual) is 
thermostatically controlled. In a quick trip to MT I was about to 
just get it up to 100 degrees. Hot, Hot, Hot, and I'm doin MT style 
driving!

100 degrees may be normal in Germany, but you gotta push mine hard 
just to get it off the peg!!

CUL,  Les
> From:          jackr@internet.kronos.com
> Date:          Fri, 26 Jul 96 11:18:07 EST
> To:            , Eric Harman <ericha@wrq.com>
> Subject:       Re: Unlabelled Gauge markings

>      >Now yours sits at 60C?  Anybody else?  Linus?  Peter?  Mike?
>      >We're in the same weather here in Seattle,  What oil temp do
>      >you see?
>      
>      When I bought my V8 last March, the guage never rose above its lowest 
>      setting of 60C and I thought it might be broken.  (Owners manual 
>      claims 100C is normal!)  As warmer weather arrived, it rises slightly 
>      higher. (Boston area.)  At Watkins Glen, it easily hit the 100C mark.  
>      ("Normal" seems to mean to continuously run your engine at 4500-6500 
>      rpm under hard accelleration.)  I don't think 100C would ever be 
>      normal on the street, except maybe in Germany (or Montana?).
>      
>      (100C number is a SWAG while sitting at my desk.  It's the very middle 
>      of the guage, whatever that number is.  I remember thinking it wasn't 
>      much hotter than my 'vette's normal street driving oil temp of around 
>      202F.)
>      
>      Jack Rich
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