The " How to Hto Rod VW engines" book says that for every 10 degrees your
engine's oil runs over 210F, your engine life is cut in half.  My 79 loaf
engine was balanced, ported big intake vale heads from FAT,, had a
thermostatically controlled mega oil cooler on it and  dual two barrel
Weber 44IDF's and headers.  Head temps measured at the exhaust manifold
stud on #3 never got over 450 F, and the oil never got over 210 climbing
I-24 to Sewanee TN from either direction in August.

It's more than cool oil, you really need one venturi per cylinder to use
the fuel to cool the valves.  Man that loaf would run!!!

reminiscing with people I barely know,

dm&fs

At 02:14 PM 8/12/2003 -0400, Russell, William wrote:
>I've got a question regarding this.  I've got a 1980 air-cooled and an
>after-market oil temperature gauge.  The question is:  What's too hot?
>I definitely get as hot as 120C before I really start worrying.  Is that
>too hot already?
>
>\/\/i!!y
>1980 Westfalia "Jazzy"
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
>Of Malcolm Stebbins
>Sent: August 12, 2003 2:00 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: External oil cooler, Help overheating
>
>Can't help you, but I can tell  you that I had an 81
>Westy and I had a full flow oil cooler on it and it
>still overheated on hills (in the heat) or just with
>the AC on.  Good luck.  This was back in 81 when the
>westy was new.  M
>
>--- phil cain <bearsvw2000@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> > Would anyone have how to hook up a external oil
> > cooler
> > to a 80 Westy, mine run a little hot on the hills in
> > the heat of the summer. Would like to have where to
> > get the parts also.
>
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