[DeTomaso] Oil Temperatures

Asa Jay Laughton asajay at asajay.com
Sun Jun 12 12:27:01 EDT 2016


For what its worth, I ran a 10-qt Armondo pan when I was seeing the  
230 on mine at sustained 130 mph at SSCC.

But I would agree most all street driven Panteras shouldn't need one.

Asa  Jay
(Note, I am not an expert)

Quoting wawuzat via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>:

> Need to chime in on this subject....
>
> I have a feeling that most of the Pantera's out there have absolutely  no
> need for an oil cooler.  I live in New Mexico and it gets hot.   Just ran the
> Pantera yesterday in 95+ degree weather.  My car has a 10  quart baffled
> oil pan and I run 10W40 oil (non-synthetic).
>
> I use a Pantera Performance's two pass radiator (Ron Davis  design).  I
> RARELY ever see 200 degrees on my oil temperatures.   The only time  
> I ever see
> temperatures that high is when I get into slow moving  traffic (city
> driving).  Running at highway speeds yesterday my water  temperature was 170
> degrees and the oil temperature at about 180-185  degrees.  That is  
> on a 95 degree
> day.
>
> I have two cooling fans for the radiator that are both manually controlled
> and at highway speeds they are always turned OFF.  The only time I use a
> fan (I control each fan with a separate switch) is in stop and go  traffic.
> It is quite rare that I run both fans at the same time.
>
> I drive the car hard and can only recall a handful of times that the oil
> temperature reached 200 or higher (NEVER at highway speeds or  faster).   I
> would highly recommend a 10 quart oil pan for those  wanting to keep the oil
> cool and a nicely designed radiator doesn't hurt  either.
>
> Hope this info helps!
>
> Jim


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