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Old May 24, 2007 | 10:55 AM
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If your coolant temps are low but you oil temps are still under 210 , I wouldn't worry about it. If you've made the cooling system more efficient and haven't touched the oil system, then of course you'll see a difference. You really need coolant and oil temps over about 180* optimally but you don't really want them any higher than about 210-212* or so. That is the optimum temperature range. When you get hotter than this you run into other issues that I don't think many people think about.

Detonation for one thing. Detonation is caused by hot pockets that ignite the fuel mixture spontaneously in an uncontrolled manner. If you have a hotter rotor, you are more likely to detonate. I know some people will dispute this but how many people have we seen have ping while street driving and how hot can Renesis oil temps get up to? Coincedence?
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Old May 24, 2007 | 07:56 PM
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no doubt heat can influence detonation---# 2 rotor usually (on misfires). We are running a 10-1 compression ratio and some people like to run regular low octane gas and then run the **** out of it on the street with no cool down time.
I am thinking the same--i have done a few things to help the coolant system -but not a lot on the oil coolers.
Always something to do.
Buy the way I never see those kind of temps on the street ---only on the track--but then again the engine doesnt know the difference-it only knows it is hot.
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