Oil Temps.......What gives?? Options

[Fastbird]

Ok, so on the advice of people, I finally moved my oil temp sensor down to the pan and had a bung installed there. Yesterday was the first test, and it STILL was hitting 240*+ on the dang highway after 13 minutes (my highway commute) of 3000+ RPM operation, constant RPM between 3000 and 3700 RPM. It's lower, definitely, but it wasn't quite as hot as last time I drove the car with the sensor mounted in the sandwich adapter.

So what the heck gives? I watch MR2OC and I see guys talking about 200 temps during normal driving, 220 when leaning on it, maybe 240-260 ON A TRACK DAY. I NORMALLY see 240. Odd though, the temp wants to go up at idle with the sensor in the pan, I'm assuming due to lower flow at that low RPM state. I wasn't even being hard on the car yesterday, just lazily driving it around, barely getting into boost at all. And you can tell it's getting DANG hot. I popped the hood last night to clean up a couple of things when I got home from work, and that was a no-go. Too much heat.

Thoughts? Ideas?

[DEATH]

Perhaps it's because you're hood/bumper setup vs a true GT4, alltrac and even the MR2 isn't really designed to flow much air? When you're sitting at idle the closed hood becomes an oven and even at speed the lack of flow ups the oil temps?
IDK - Just speculation but it can't be helping.
Where is your oil cooler located at?

This post has been edited by DEATH: Jul 29, 2008 - 8:05 AM