Oil temperature?

[Banger]

What is the optimum oil temperature before the engine is warmed up to go full throttle.

I have heard that 15 mins is quite common on half throttle before the engine is warm enough? This being a temperature of atleast 40 C!

Correct?

I have Heard 100 C that sounds bloody hot!

 

[(RIP) Shenzi]

When I was doing lots of offroad stuff in Africa I had an oil temp guage on my airhead, took it off as it used to scare me!

 

[Possu]

My 1150 runs at 5 bars on the oil temp gauge all the time. I don't consider it warmed up until at least 4 bars are showing.

You can't put a time constraint on it as ambient temperature has a huge affect. I've only had mine show 6 bars once & that was a 90-100mph run from Caen to Cherbourg in hot weather.

 

[Greg Masters]

I have Heard 100 C that sounds bloody hot!

100C is not that hot for an air/oil cooled engine.

Most cars these days use oil/water intercooler which means an even warm-up and should limit oil temperature to around 80-90C.

My old V8 Aston Martin had no such device, but it did have an oil-temp gauge which often read nearly 150C.

The Beemers also don't have any heat interface other than with air, so high oil temperatures will occur from time to time. For this reason alone, fully-synth oil is the way to go. It's not any more slippery than mineral oil, but is much more stable at high temperatures.

Greg

 

[Banger]

When I was doing lots of offroad stuff in Africa I had an oil temp guage on my airhead, took it off as it used to scare me!

I got one too on the motard. never used it , my sister brought it back from Austria. Had it a year but might see what its all about?

Its not supposed to tell you how hot but when it gets hot enough to go full throttle (if that makes sense?)

Here it is.