Originally Posted by Lug (Post 1304063)

College Station huh? You sure your car is not on fire?


Seriously, run your car for a few thousand mile before doing anything. I've seen several people say that after breakin, cars run a bit cooler and use less oil.

Originally Posted by wstar (Post 1305366)

Re: the Mocal questions, I called them a couple of years ago when I bought my thermo plate, I've posted this like 3 times on different threads here somewhere:

The Mocal starts with both passages (oil cooler + bypass) open. The thermostat closes the bypass passage gradually over roughly the 175-185F range. So at 185+, basically all of your oil flow is forced through the cooler. Under 175, most of it takes the bypass route (least resistance), but a small amount will still flow through the cooler as well since the passageway is open (and this helps warm up the cooler and lines themselves, so it's not a sudden temp shock).

Originally Posted by dawudih (Post 1322620)

:iagree:

Originally Posted by roy'sz (Post 1326839)

I wouldn't necessarily call it the bypass. Part of the oil goes through the filter and back to your engine. Not all of the flow is designed to go throug the cooler. After it flows to the cooler it comes back through the filter and to the Engine. Other than that yeah that's pretty accurate.