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Originally Posted by gixrman
Well my concern is that now the oil is going to be taking that much more of the heat out system. Even this winter after hard 3rd gear tunning pulls my oil was thinning out and oil pressure was droping down at idle dangerously low on my E16g. My concern I guess is over cooking the oil this summer. I ordered a external oil filter housing from MACHV the other day. Just wanted to know if anybody else had any thoughts on this.
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I've had no problems. I'm also feeding my Garrett from the head where many claim the oil pressure is very low. I have had no problems with my external oil cooler setup and where my turbo receives the oil for 4 yrs now. When I install the holset I will feed it from the oil pump with a restrictor inline. Oil thinning out and low oil pressure is not a problem in these motors especially with the addition of an External oilcooler setup different or similar to what the 1990 1st gen GSX's had.
I was beating the life out of my car in late Sept early Oct doing several 140+ mph runs(20psi boost) WOT and not a glitch with my oil pressure. I only had heat soak issues because the day was also very humid (Temp in the 80's to high 80's believe it or not). Now I will be putting in an even bigger Spearco intercooler and cool air forced ram induction feeding the turbo inlet as well to deal with the heat soak issues.
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