Oil Cooler Placement On 205Cti Mi16 Where?

[flyfisher 6 2 Cars]

Using my 205cti today I noticed oil temp was risking quite high . Ok I know temps have been very high today but as we all know hotter it gets thinner the oil becomes result lower oil pressure. Might be worth saying car running mi 16 alloy block. Would fitting a oil cooler be worthwhile if so where s the best place it pretty crowded under the hood answer would seem to be behind grille but that seems to be a no no due to lack of space. So where do you guys fit them. Thanks peter

[petert 586]

The easiest solution would be to fit an oil-water cooler and remote mount from an air conditioned 205.

[Dizzee stuff 33 1 Cars]

fitted mine (19 row 115mm) in the standard location on a custom bracket I made.

 

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[Anthony 1,003]

How high were the oil temperatures? I'm firmly of the belief that you do not need an oil cooler for road use in the UK, and that indeed for much of the year getting heat into the oil is more of an issue, which is where a heat exchanger like Petert mentioned is more useful.

[flyfisher 6 2 Cars]

Oil temp at highest level was at 3/4 on gauge never went above that could have done dizzy stuffs answer but running twin cooling fans so that's a no go. Pity would have been a easy fix

[welshpug 1,657]

3/4 isnt high, thats around normal operating temp iic

[welshpug 1,657]

[flyfisher 6 2 Cars]

Just seemed high to me so your saying that's normal bearing in mind I wasn't chasing the car but was in heavy traffic

[Anthony 1,003]

This might sound stupid, but the coolant and oil temp gauges are wired round the correct way, aren't they?

 

Oil temperature won't typically climb in traffic and if anything should fall over time. Coolant temperature on the other hand will climb, and around 3/4 on the gauge is where it'll be held by the radiator fan.

 

If you're in traffic then an air-oil cooler won't do much anyway, as it works by airflow across an oil-filled radiator, and if you're not moving, there will be no meaningful airflow and thus little cooling effect.

 

Oil temperature typically rises as a result of prolonged high revs/load, hence why coolers are more important on track.

[barneys66 122 1 Cars]

How high were the oil temperatures? I'm firmly of the belief that you do not need an oil cooler for road use in the UK, and that indeed for much of the year getting heat into the oil is more of an issue, which is where a heat exchanger like Petert mentioned is more useful.

 

That's what I did - was soundly thrashing it at an autosolo on Sunday (flippin hot day) and it didn't close to 90.

 

[flyfisher 6 2 Cars]

Ok so maybe I'm panicking over nothing will have to see how it goes thanks guys for your help and opinions Peter

[pug_ham 244 3 Cars]

If you decide you do need to cool the oil temp more, why are you running twin fans?

They are only in use when the coolant temperature gets hot enough to trigger them & given a choice between twin fans & an oil cooler, I'd certainly pick the oil cooler personally, placed like above by dizzee.

 

I used to run the oil water heat exchanger type set up on my 8v track day car & that got the oil temps up to 3/4's but only after 20+ minutes on track in June, on the roads it never got that high.

 

What condition is the wire to the oil temp sender? I do remember when I was getting random spurious high oil temp indication it was because the insulation had melted away & the wire was shorting on the block causing the gauge to give inaccurate readings.

 

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[flyfisher 6 2 Cars]

Might be worth looking at graham thanks for the advice