REFLECTOR: One or Two oil coolers?
steve korney
s_korney at hotmail.com
Mon May 14 11:30:46 CDT 2007
Tec...
I put those oil squirter nozzles on my parallel valve lycoming engine and
the oil temp went up about 15 degrees F in cruise. Ended up putting a 6
cylinder oil cooler on the four cylinder system to take care of the higher
oil temps...The nozzles open at about 40 lbs. of oil pressure so you don't
loose any pressure at idle... I have adjustable oil pressure and it is set
to 83 psi. @ 185 F. and 78 psi. @ 210 F. At start up in the morning it's
120 psi. @ 60F and 1000 rpm's. I let it warm to 90 F. before I do a run-up
Best... Steve
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From: HYTEC45 at aol.com
Reply-To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: One or Two oil coolers?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 10:02:11 EDT
In a message dated 5/11/2007 7:12:26 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
scott at tnstaafl.net writes:
Its funny we have those that have or had an IO360 powered Velocity that
ran just fine on one cooler. Direct experience told them that the
standard configuration built correctly works just fine.. These are
real life Velocities flying today that don't have a problem with one
cooler.
Then there are those that one cooler didn't seem to do the job, we will
never know why for sure. So their cure was to install another cooler,
which is fine. But these folks just can't admit that there are
Velocity's flying around with one cooler and working fine. Why can't
they admit that?
Here is another example of the reflector becoming a "chat Room" with posts
not relating to any real data that is helpful to a builder. Great info,
some
work with one, some don't, but let me stir some sh*t. Let me offer some
data, and this as a possible explanation. Some 360's have oil spray
nozzles in
the main case. These nozzles spray oil directly onto the base of the
pistons
for additional cooling. This was done to lower CHT, but with a cost.
Guess
what that is? Higher Oil temp #1. The nozzles also tap off some oil
pressure and at higher oil temps, and this is detectable. I don't like
seeing
70PSI when oil temps are above 220' in my engine. As I mentioned in a
earlier
post, oil temp relates to the life of your engine. Some think that staying
just below red line is fine, and again, I don't care. I also have a stock
172
and It has oil temp issues in the summer. Funny, this Cessna sled has a
green
zone, followed by a red line on the oil temp gauge with no yellow zone.
Some posts regarding one cooler mention they have climb restrictions. When
I
had one cooler, I had climb restrictions to due to high oil temps even
though
my CHTs never got above 380(nozzles). Now, I can climb out of anywhere, to
any
altitude with 10:1 and never back off, and stay below 210 oil temp,and
360CHT and stay above 73psi. If that can be done with one cooler, super
and I'm
all ears!!
So, who ever posted that there new Velocity has oil temp problems, and is
scratching there head now with all the confusion, see if your engine is a
model with nozzles and do some investigation.
TEC
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