hows my oil pressure
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hows my oil pressure ok i have been reading alot of threads on here about low oil pressure and i just have a question about mine because no one has answered it in the other threads so i have a 2000 WS6 its got 76K on it also i live in FL hot as hell here now so when i start it cold i has just abot the 40 psi mark as i drive it goes up and all and when i beat on it a little or sit in traffic and it gets hot 212+ at idle oil psi stay above the 1/4 mark alomst in the middle of 1/4 and 1/2 just little below that as soon as i tap the throttle is goes up to alomst 1/2 and crusing its at or just barly below 1/2 and when i stomp on it it goes to 60 or barly below if not all 60psi i use mobil 1 10w30 with mobil filter is that normal i had the car for about a month and its always done that is that ok so should i be worried? thanks guys for all the great info
my start up is right around 40psi and it settles to around 20-25psi once hot at idle. but it is very sensitive to any pedal input and will shoot up to over 60psi instantly, like a tach. car has h/c/h etc.... w/~420 rwhp and driven daily. engine was rebuilt about 12k ago and the psi has always been the same.
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I just don't understand why these cars vary so much between them. Now I can understand if you have work done to it, but if you get a bunch of guys running about the same stuff or close to stock, shouldn't this stuff be the same across the board?
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the "1/4 mark"on the dash is 35psi and the "3/4 mark" on the dash is 70psi,
according to my mechanical gauge i have under the hood of my car.
once my car warms up the gauge sits at the "1/4" mark
and stays there under RPM, maybe it will hit the 40psi mark.
it`s been doing this for 40,000 miles now.
you might need a new sender like me.
according to my mechanical gauge i have under the hood of my car.
once my car warms up the gauge sits at the "1/4" mark
and stays there under RPM, maybe it will hit the 40psi mark.
it`s been doing this for 40,000 miles now.
you might need a new sender like me.
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the "1/4 mark"on the dash is 35psi and the "3/4 mark" on the dash is 70psi,
according to my mechanical gauge i have under the hood of my car.
once my car warms up the gauge sits at the "1/4" mark
and stays there under RPM, maybe it will hit the 40psi mark.
it`s been doing this for 40,000 miles now.
you might need a new sender like me.
according to my mechanical gauge i have under the hood of my car.
once my car warms up the gauge sits at the "1/4" mark
and stays there under RPM, maybe it will hit the 40psi mark.
it`s been doing this for 40,000 miles now.
you might need a new sender like me.