Engine Temperature

[Emission]

Originally posted by tholyoak
Personally I would suggest before you get too worried about your temps, checking for an electrical problem based upon the fact with ignition in the on position and the car not running you have a reading of 3.5 bar on the oil pressure gauge. Obviously you should have a reading of 0 if everything is hooked up OK and in working order.

My point exactly (see my post above). My car has 0 bar at 0 RPM.

[88911coupe]

My 88 will sometimes creep above the "9 oclock" position if I have the AC on and I'm creeping through slow traffic. I'd like to find a way to manually make the fan come on rather than wait for it to come on at a really high temp. It would be even better to have a thermostat that switches on at a lower temp. Apparently it's set pretty high on the factory oil cooler.

[banjomike]

Originally posted by 88911coupe
I'd like to find a way to manually make the fan come on rather than wait for it to come on at a really high temp. It would be even better to have a thermostat that switches on at a lower temp. Apparently it's set pretty high on the factory oil cooler.

You should seach this site a bit better. There is an article describing how to wire up a manual fan switch, and there is discussion about replacing the porsche thermostat (~248F) with a similar BMW thermostat (~210F).