I was down at the local parts emporium today, and was talking to a gold chainer about his Corvette. He has a chev small block in it, and wants to add an oil temperature sending unit. He doesn't want to pull the pan off it, and aparently it is not a corvette original equipment engine. I said that I think you can buy an adapter that screws into the place where the oil filter goes, and then the oil filter screws into it. This adapter has the oil temperature sending unit in it. He gave me his email address, and I said I would find a source and let him know where to get one. Now I'm at home, and after a brief internet search, I can't find one. Can anyone help please.---Brian __________________
LOL thats excatly what I was thinking. Holy @#$% I got a friend just like that as well. Tell him to run a custom temprature dip stick. Chicks dig it! O ya whats a "Gold Chainer"
I've got an oil temp gauge in my Porsche, but in a Porsche it's equal to a water temp gauge in a Chevy.
Tell him to run a "T" before the pressure sending unit and take the temputure at that point. It is high on the block and should give a good reading.
It's best to take oil temp in the pan or the inlet side of an oil cooler setup. That way you know the temp of the oil that the engine has just been subjected to. Some compe***ion setups I've seen take the temperature of the oil after the cooler also. Then you know how efficient your cooler really is. Frank
Like I said---the guy was a goldchainer. When I asked him why he wanted to monitor oil temperature, his response was "well aren't you supposed to?". He had spent a fortune on custom gauges to put in his Corvette. Somebody had done a real sell job on him, and included an oil temp gauge in a set!!! Now he hasn't the faintest idea where to hook it up to. I suggested that he have a bung welded to the oilpan, but he was kinda horrified at the thought of removing the pan to do that. He wanted a bolt on solution.
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