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Join Date: May 2007
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Posts: 240
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low oil pressure on the track
Hi,
this is a bit of a re-post of an older post, so forgive me if you've seen this already. So here it goes: Since I upgraded my instrument cluster to a 996 cluster and installed the 996 oil pressure sensor, I have now more insight into the inner workings of my car ![]() On my last two track events I noticed the following: Sometime in the middle of session 3 or 4 the oil pressure starts to drop to around 1.5 bar (approx 20+ psi) no matter what the RPM. This has nothing to do with high G-forces during hard cornering as I usually notice the symptom at full open throttle on the straights (where else can you peek down to check the gauges?) At the same time I noticed that the coolant temp went up to around 230 F So I initially thought it must be an issue with the cooling system So here's what I did: * Replaced water pump * installed LN engineering low-temp thermostat * cleaned the radiators (also cleaned between the radiators and the AC condensers) * switched from 15W50 to 10W40 * bled the coolant system twice * checked that all the electric fans kick in * checked pressure on the coolant lines to the front radiators My next (and last track day of this season) is coming up this Sunday For some reason I am worried that I will be running into the same issues again. In case it happens again I wanted to measure the oil temp via the Durametric right after I pull off the track, to see if the oil gets too hot (I have an "S", so I have the larger oil cooler already). So, here's the question(s): * Is it possible that the only issue is that the oil pressure sensor itself is malfunctioning * Anything else I can do/check ? Thanks
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