oil temp

[Gaz64]

Originally Posted by Whodeeny

So does the oil temperature in the pan differ depending on where the oil temperature is measured? I have an Aviad oil pan and the sensor is placed very low in the pan at about the same elevation as the drain plug. The oil temperature just barely gets to a point that I would call acceptable. I have an oil cooler installed and I blocked off air flow to the heat exchanger trying to bring the oil temperature up. It didn't come up very much. Plus the pan hangs down a little bit so that the lower 20% or so of the pan is probably in the air stream passing under the car. My hope is that the oil that is being pumped to the bearings is actually hotter than that which is at the sensor and what I am seeing on the gauge. Is this just wishful thinking?
BD

That's how all oil pans work.
Airflow around the pan is part of the oil cooling design.

You should move your oil temp sender to the oil filter housing. That will be a better average of oil temp within the engine.

Another way would be to have the sender in a constant fall of oil from the crankshaft, or within an oil drainback within one cylinder head.