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Originally Posted by nicknick
Guys I just test drove a 370Z here in Austrlaia, a 6sp manual.
Awesome car. This thing regarding high engine oil temps has me concerned though. So i checked and diwscovered that oil temp of 220 is normal. Therefore would you not expect oil temp to rise a little bit in heavy traffic or track driving. Just wondering if this is being overhyped. Additionally you could use full synthetic oil like redline, motul etc.
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I'm wondering the same thing. I bought a new 370Z, but with 7AT not 6MT, a week ago and took the car out this weekend for a drive through Cleveland National Forest - not a lot of major elevation changes, but some nice twisties with outside air temp at about 85. I had to really work the car to get the oil temp to hit 220 - it pretty much stayed at 210 the whole trip. At the end of the trip you end up in Lake Elsinore where the outside temp was 93, and the oil temp dropped down to 200 and then rose back up to 210.