In winter, you need the full coverage to warm up as much as possible. Come spring/summer, unless you are doing spirited driving, you can ALSO do full coverage. However, if you intend to push it a little bit, you could certainly do about 50% coverage and it will keep you nice and cool. But (depending on the size of your cooler - I'm assuming it's a 25R or larger) for the most part, you can get away with covering most of it at all times.

The oil overheating issues are almost exclusively located on the track, and at times when you plan to rev north of 4-5K for an extended period of time...

Also, before I forget....yes, there ARE detrimental effects to running oil TOO cold. It is a thing.

there's a ton factors that play into it though, wouldnt you think?

Me personally, from what I've seen, If your oil temp is atleast 170 degrees, you're good. Even with the block off plate on or off, and driving on the highway at 55 degrees or more (outside temperature). You should be anywhere from 170 to 180 degrees, all day.

Right now, Bobo, you're right, the block off plate should be on. But my general rule of thumb is to watch your oil temp when your block off plate is off.

Im probably going to need your help to make a new block off plate for my oil cooler after I get my car back. My cousin lost mine and I've been running without it since then.

In my experience, you only need to take the plate off when you're gonna track it. I've had my cooler fully blocked off in the summer while spirited driving and my temps were ok. At most I would do 50% in the summer and 100% covered the redt of the year.

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Actually I think I will just take it off and sell it. Not gonna track my Z ever again and I could use the cash for my house purchase. i will still need your help for this Rob. If anyone wants a 34 row Z1 oil cooler kit, let me know.

I don't want the whole cooler, I just need half of it if you can make me a half deal :tiphat:

Do you mean half the kit ot half the cooler itself?

No, half cooler if you know what I mean ;)











jk bra.........

I'm bout to get the Z1 steering cooler kit cos last year I tracked mine, that sh1t boiled.

Yeah that's what I thought, but I had to make sure. :p

Mr. VTAK!!!!!:hello::hello::hello:

180-210 is certainly a nominal temperature. Any lower, and you start running into viscosity issues w/ your oil (that is, it's TOO viscous, and can cause premature wear). You can even go up to 230-240 without issue. I wont even move my plate from 100% coverage until it's north of 70-80 degrees, and to be honest, I see no reason to even budge it unless I know Im going to be driving hard for a while. I left it at 100% for one of our cruises, I just didn't drive 100% the whole time lol. No issues.

Point is, unless you are creeping past 230+ and it's still climbing, you shouldn't be worried.

I still have some of the aluminum left over from when I made the full cover plate... was thinking about trimming a piece down to make a 50% cover plate for summer/runs.

Only question is, is it worth the hassle to swap? :icon17: