Have you deleted your oil cooler?
Sure don't beat the **** outta it when its cold but you can still drive it.
Anyway lots of people have removed the oil cooler unless your road racing it. I'm going to remove it until I start road racing next year. I'm going to run a different type of oil cooler anyway.
Was just about to post about the thermostat.
Also, I don't think an oil cooler is going to benefit in an autocross unless you're hitting a decent speed.
I know that when I was driving hardcore in the winter.... in a snow/ice storm.... my oil temps were creeping up +50c over what they normally are at and it was because ice had completely covered the cooler... knocked it off at a rest stop and the temps fell down.. good or bad I don't know, but you car is certainly made and tested with it from the OEM for the hottest of hot markets and the coldest of cold.
I wouldn't say its common but if you have no plans to road race or compete in a very aggressive racing it really doesn't do anything except add more weight.
On a street car the oil never gets hot enough that it would begin to break down and require to be cooled by the cooler.
Mitsubishi put it there because the car was designed as a street legal race car, but if you just drive it on the street and even drag race it you'll be fine.
On a street car the oil never gets hot enough that it would begin to break down and require to be cooled by the cooler.
Mitsubishi put it there because the car was designed as a street legal race car, but if you just drive it on the street and even drag race it you'll be fine.
What about even some back to back highway pulls?
I wouldn't say its common but if you have no plans to road race or compete in a very aggressive racing it really doesn't do anything except add more weight.
On a street car the oil never gets hot enough that it would begin to break down and require to be cooled by the cooler.
Mitsubishi put it there because the car was designed as a street legal race car, but if you just drive it on the street and even drag race it you'll be fine.
On a street car the oil never gets hot enough that it would begin to break down and require to be cooled by the cooler.
Mitsubishi put it there because the car was designed as a street legal race car, but if you just drive it on the street and even drag race it you'll be fine.
I wouldn't say its common but if you have no plans to road race or compete in a very aggressive racing it really doesn't do anything except add more weight.
On a street car the oil never gets hot enough that it would begin to break down and require to be cooled by the cooler.
Mitsubishi put it there because the car was designed as a street legal race car, but if you just drive it on the street and even drag race it you'll be fine.
On a street car the oil never gets hot enough that it would begin to break down and require to be cooled by the cooler.
Mitsubishi put it there because the car was designed as a street legal race car, but if you just drive it on the street and even drag race it you'll be fine.
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yeah.... I was gunna say the same thing...
I know that when I was driving hardcore in the winter.... in a snow/ice storm.... my oil temps were creeping up +50c over what they normally are at and it was because ice had completely covered the cooler... knocked it off at a rest stop and the temps fell down.. good or bad I don't know, but you car is certainly made and tested with it from the OEM for the hottest of hot markets and the coldest of cold.
I know that when I was driving hardcore in the winter.... in a snow/ice storm.... my oil temps were creeping up +50c over what they normally are at and it was because ice had completely covered the cooler... knocked it off at a rest stop and the temps fell down.. good or bad I don't know, but you car is certainly made and tested with it from the OEM for the hottest of hot markets and the coldest of cold.