[Shotimes] Re: synthetic oil and oil pressure and race fuel

[Paul Nimz]

But you are also adding to the glycol system total cooling capacity.  Actually
cooling the oil is secondary in this loop.  I did have good luck with this
lowering coolant temps in high ambient temps.  A good t-stat will govern the
minimum temp well even in winter with this too.  But a cooler block temp will
lower oil temps too all the time.

Paul


On 7/31/2005 11:42:59 AM, Zach Leahy (leahyz@gmail.com) wrote:
> I think,and remind I think I am not positive, that cooling wateri n
> order to coolt he oil better is probably not as effective as just
> cooling the oil in the forst place.
>
> Physics tells me there is loss in each step, so I plan to keep it
> simple and cool the oil by the air.  Otherwise you are cooling water
> which in turn cools the oil.  Seems like one more step and one more
> loss in the transfer.  My thought is that a liquid/air cooler can
> probably reject a certain amount of heat from a certain sized cooler,
> based on the same temp of liquid (and
> we're close enough to call them
> about the same in this case).  More cooler and the temp drop is
> higher, less cooler size and there is less change in the temp.  Yes
> there are specific heat issues at hand, but with fluid in motion I
> don't
> think
> it's as big of a change.
>
> So my theory is to keep is simple and cool the fluid I want cooled
directly.
>
> Z
>
> On 7/29/05, Paul Nimz <pnimz@v8sho.com> wrote:
> > So why not cool the coolant before it goes through the oil/water cooler?
> >
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >  On 7/29/2005 7:51:48 AM, Zach Leahy (leahyz@gmail.com