oil pressure ??

[subzero]

have the gauges fitted but the oil pressure seems high ( up at 6) what should it be reading ??

 

[Yakozan]

6bar is pretty normal if the oil is cool.
Should be considerably lower after warmup. Not sure what pressure but around 1.5-1.75Bar I think when the oil is at operating temp.

 

[Matt_S]

Yeh what he said ^^^. 6bar at cold start up, thats perfectly normal.

 

[DeanS15]

mine when warm sits at around 25 psi, when cold and on the move up around 90-100psi

 

[subzero]

oh , all good so .... seemed a little high i thought. sits at just over 5 while cruising.

 

[mook]

Not sure how the S15 compares with my GT-Four but that also sits at 6 when cold then comes down to 4 when warm, dropping to 2 on warm tickover and sometimes dipping as low as 0.5 very breifly when you lift off after a long period of cruising (coming off a motorway slip road for example). It can then dip reasonably low when manouvering around the carpark at the end of a journey.

That would make 5 seem a little high when cruising but the SR20DET might be a bit different from the 3S-GTE.

 

[subzero]

the gauge does however alarm when i clutch and the revs drop ?? this normal, drops to just below 2 and beeps .

 

[DeanS15]

when you dip the clutch and the revs drop the oil pressure will settle back down towards the warm idle pressure quite quickly. the more the revs, the harder the oil pumps working - not sure about the warning beep though....

 

[mook]

That depends on when you've got your warning level set

 

[Benne]

When engine is warmed up, I have ~1.8bar @ idle and ~8bar @ wot.