Recent content by jamesv6

Heres a couple of my baby, an 05 sti widetrack, had her about 4 years, bought her standard and have spent a tidy sum but never regretted it. I went for the wolf in sheeps look and it has surprised quite a few nice cars running at present 440bhp but soon to be around the 460-470bhp on v power...

Exact same issue with my 1.2, complete pain in arsd, had a quick look by taking the inner door card off but I like u are waiting for a helpfull answer.

ok thanks guys for all your input, i decided to remove the aircon rad as it doesnt work anyhow due to split pipe and the fins were all bent etc so with air going into the water radiator which looks like new should cool the engine more efficiently, hopefully got another track day in the next...

The oil pressure and temp guages are one of the first things I did, for this reason.

It's interesting with everyone's views towards oil coolers, with or without, I'm just trying to guage best way to go from an engineering point of view as some of us know the 40 in 5w40 is the viscosity at 100 degrees c, after all it is the blood of the engine and if it thins too much it's an...

do you mean stock internally as its not really stock anymore as im running 200bhp on itb`s. cheers dan, removing the under tray never occurred to me lol

and where can we purchase a water cooled one, i heard they are similar to the renault 5 turbo water cooled ones?

lol no dakkar tony just little old snetterton, got another trackday in a couple of weeks so will just monitor temps and pressures for now.

cool cheers fred, i do have an oil pressure guage fitted aswell and i have always had good pressure, i have it set to alarm if its drops below a certain pressure. so is there bad points to fitting a cooler? if i had to fit one come summer month would you fit one with or without a thermostatic plate?

what would you hardy track goers recommend, oil cooler sandwich plate without thermostat as less to go wrong and i dont use it on the road, plus how many rows as i dont want to over cool the oil either. Also stack guages are very good, ive been happy with prosport as i have them in the clio and...

yes i think ur right chip, im thinking a 13 row mocal would be ok, from your experience what do you run?

That's good to know then, cheers chip, I use gulf competition or fuches pro r 5w40 depending which is on offer at the time so it will cope with 120, just wanna be safe on track as it get driven hard for 20 - 30 minute sessions at a time then cooled down.

I've just fitted the new prosport halo oil temp and pressure guages with peak and selectable alarm features, just fitted via a sandwich plate, I may well just put a 13 row cooler on then just to keep temps down a little, it would be nice to keep temps between 90-100 without having to cool down...

I've read quite a few threads on here regarding oil coolers so I have used the search bar before anyone comments, I did a track day Saturday at my local snetterton and after 4 or 5 laps my oil was at 105 degrees c, I'm using gulf competition fully syn ester based 5w40, I start getting nervous...

how much different are they to the 2500 as im contemplating the 3000`s on the next set