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sorry my mistake. $500ono could be sold already though

Genuine Volk RE30 18x10.5+18 5x114.3 18x10.5+18 no rash no tyres no cracks or buckles sydney, happy to post interstate $2900ono

Trust/Greddy/Earls Oil cooler kit for sale is a used but perfect condition oil cooler kit from greddy/trust/earls kit consists of: - greddy oil cooler sandwich plate - 13 row greddy oil cooler - 2x -10an braided hose from earls - 2x Earls -10an straight fittings - 2x Earls -10an 90deg fittings Was off an S14, pretty easy to install to any other car lines are around 1.2m long, and wont be an issue with fitment no leaks or rust. runs perfect, as new condition. happy to post australia wide pick up hurstville sydney 0434 84 87 31

hi mate, still got this?

WTB: Tilton Oil Pump Guys, WTB a Tilton pump please. Suitible for diff/gearbox cooler build. Cheers!

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Hi Guys, Clearing out my garage. I have had a brand new set of Advan A050 sitting in tyre racks, off the ground in my garage for a couple years. Build date on tyres are 3710 (37th week of 2010) and the compound is G/S (soft) Tyre size is 265/35/18x4 I paid $2,500 from Gordon Levin and are now no longer needed. Dont want to negotiable or deal with low ballers, and I am firm on $1650. Happy to arrange and ship Australia wide at buyers expense. I live 5 minutes from a depot, so I can ship from my nearest depot to you/closer depot to you and I anticipate freight should be $100 max. Yes the compound is a bit older than what you'd normally get from tyre shops now, but at the price, 34% discounted, I'm sure you wouldnt complain. I was at my garage yesterday, and the compound is still soft, and evident when I pressed my finger nail on the tyre, and it left an indent. My garage is based in South-West Sydney, and I live in the Shire. I'm pretty sure I have priced this well for quality WTAC approved tyres. Brand New Advan A050 Semi Slicks 265/35/18 x 4 compound is G/S, build date is 3710 $1650firm. Thanks, Alex 0434 848 731

SYDNEY, can ship anywhere for $70 around Australia A050 265/35/18 x 4 tyres. brand new Will be back in Sydney in a fortnights time. $1650firm - stupidly cheap Gordon Levin sells for $589./tyre ($2356 total) G/S (SOFT) compound Cheers!

Nice post... Cannot see your relevance to our issue though. Thanks google searcher.

Towards end of Feb once I get my car back from a respray, I will be removing my oil cooler sandwich plate, reinstalling the greddy sandwich plate and will simultaneously compare oil temps at both the sump and sandwich plate region. I was going to do this prior to oil cooler, but wanted to get it done before going into the shop etc. By doing the above, I will have no variables to consider, becuse the conditions will be exactly the same where the only difference is just the different location of sensors!

well you are in luck OP! BSP is a term I f**king hate, because it can be either tapered or parallel. the Yanks have adopted BSP for fittings that are BSP (Parallel).... the japs use BSPT (tapered) but call it PT.... since it is parallel, either a BSPP or BSPT fitting will work. You may find there could be a few threads leftover onthe defi sensor since it is a tapered fitting, it going to expand and seal. Regardless I would use some threadlock sealant again! At least that is confirmed, and its just now to focus on the oil temp!!!!!

HI Mate, Yes Rob's blog is very informative for the trakc enthusiast, although it is focused on RX7/S2000. Garage7 is f**king useless, although I just emailed them, its a poor result that I received nothing. Anyways, the Grex sandwich plate is pretty decent, in fact from my research of best place to tap sensors in conjnction with an oil cooler, the greddy sandwich plate is the absolute best design. Its only drawback is the thermostat begins to completely shut at a low 72C. As my car, and I believe your car is also a street car, we do not want sub optimal tempertures..... I reckon the Greddy tech's decided to opt for a low temp thermostat as they would have built this sandwich place around the end user uing their greddy turbo and ecu and tiny 10row oil cooler, in other words, they are expecting the end user to have big HP, and thus utilising a small oil cooler that is universal to all makes and models, and then having the oil cooler working earlier compared to the vast majority of big name sandwich plates on offer! Yes as others have mentioned, I do believe your current location of tapping where the oem oil pressure sensor sits to act as an area to read oil temp isnt the ideal location. Especially with the brass T fitting applied. My water temp like yours, IS also the same before and after oil cooler installation. From my experience the OEM heat exchanger / water:oil factory cooler only works well to warm up cold oil with relatively warm water during startup/warm up. But the opposite doesnt work in the real world. RE MOCAL; I spent a few nights 6 months ago calling the tech's over in the UK asking questions back and fourth. Ive been busy with a newborn and work last few months, hence the slow build on the oil cooler! But for some reason I have the figure of 5-10% in my head in terms of oil flow through the oil cooler circuit when < thermostat fully shut temp. It looks like from our two installtions, that this is not correct, where there is a much higher percentage when 10% of flow when < thermostat fully shut temp. I have a spare brand new mocal sandwich plate for my mate which is also the high temp option which I played around with. By going by 100% of flow when the thermostat fully shuts, when temp is < 93C, it looks like the thermostat allows around 50% flow.... THis is just an estimate.. but its around halfway there! It would be ideal to run a temp sensor before (1) oil cooler, after (2) oil cooler, and sump (3) but for me, this is just a weekender and as much as possilble track car.. Too expensive having 3 gauges and 3 sensors. I went through a headf**k as no one could confirm the thread metric/pitch on the oem oil pressure sensor etc, long story short, It was a perfect fit where I screwed in my defi oil pressure sensor into the oem oil pressure location. Please note this is on my Honda S2000, so it might be different on your RB25 block! If I were you, I'd strongly research and find out what the thread is, possibly best option is to just take the oem pressure sensor to bunnings, and test to see what fits! Be sure to use some threadlock/tape etc, but 100% get rid of that weak brass t fitting. Your engine especially at high RPM will have vibrations, and the weakest links suffer, in your case it will be that brass fitting. Over time that will crack at the threads being another headache.GET RID OF IT! NPT and PT are same same but different, i guess u can get away away when using threadlock. As the SARD unit is a universal fitting, ie they didnt design it with defi in mind, I also found the fitting not as ideal. Not sure if I mentioned initially, but as I am tapping via the sump, i screw in the sard adapter to the sump, and then on the female side screw in the defi oil temp sensor. THis goes in about 50% of the threads, and locks out. hope this info helps re oil pressure snesor and the adapter from sard.. I got the fitting from mcmaster-carr. I have a spare one which I can post down to you. It is the part you require, male is 1/8NPT, female is 1/8P. From memory the defi temp sensot from the tip to the last thread is 30mm long, and this space is 20mm long, so this will allow you to both obtain clearance of the sensor in the fitting, and convert the correct threads across on either end. from memory it was $30USD for the part, plus $25USD shipping (what a f**king joke)!!! I'll obviously sell it much less than that! In summary, here's the current plan: Refresh the Mocal sandwich plate with the service kit inc. new thermostat - Before doing this, do as I also did and test the sandwich plate by boiling some water, put the sandwich plate and boiling water in a pot, I also turned on stove to maintain heat. Put a kitchen or whatever thermomnter in the water to get a second reading... you should seee the thermostat begin to close around 93C, and fully shut moments later. Also test by cooling the water and watch the reverse! Move the Defi oil temp sensor to AN10 fitting (with a spacer?) running off the outlet (hot) line of the Mocal - Since you have ordered the gauge -10an fitting, might as well give this a try. be sure to buy the fitting off me,or directly from mcmaster-carr first though! Install the Defi oil pressure sensor in the OEM location - as long as the metrics line up, screw it right in. Otherwise the best setup is IMO: lets just assume this first: oil pressure thread/pitch/metric on the rb25 block is 1/8NPT defi oil pressure sensor is 1/8PT I would get an adapater that is 1/8NPT male, and -3an female, -3an braided hose, a second adapter that is -3an male and 1/8PT female. Connect all up as above so you have the hose with correct fitting to the block, and at the end you have defi oil pressure snesor. you then mount thedefi pressure snesor somewhere in your engine bay. BY USING the line rather than a t fitting, the line absorbs the vibrations, but wont crack since it moves etc.

just wanted to elaborate that tested my sandwich plate this morning with the kettle, a pot, and another manual thermonter. The thermostat starts to closed around 93, and at 95 its completely shut. and bringing the temp of the water down <93, the thrmostat begins to open again. Additionally, I will get some perspex or junk metal, and use it as a block off plate for the street, and monitor temps like that.

HI mate, what an incredible similar issue that I now have. Just quickly: Honda S2000. I also am using the same Mocal sandwich plate you are using; high temp thermo allowing full flow at 93C/200F, in addition to Earls 19row cooler with earls fittings and lines! Like you I have Defi gauges and was initially tapping at the sandwich plate, and now currently tapping via a sump plug adapter from SARD at the sump. Previously oil temp was 85-95C for regular street driving, like I mentioned tapped at the sandwich plate Now with the cooler installed, extra 500ml of engine oil, my oil temp readings are around 70-80C in Sydney's weather today. I have a feeling that like many many posts across the internet reflecting a difference between oil temp readings at the sump, compared to the sandwich plate. I tested my sandwich plate from Mocal, and it is indeed the correct wax pellet as I can see it completely shutting off at around 96C, it begins to move around 92-93C. I also kept an eye on my gauge today, and I believe the thermostat never completely closed today, re-routing all oil to the cooler, and back. The reasoning behind this is I never seen any dramatic drop in oil temp.... I can see you also ordered that pressure gauge adapter to fit the defi sensor, please note the fitting is 1/8NPT, and just a quick FYI that the defi sensor is 1/8PT (otherwise known as BSP Tapered or BSPT) and trust me, there is no guage fitting that has a thread to accept 1/8PT ... I do have the special fitting where I found the only place worldwide to selll it, you will need this to convert the threads over to fit the defi sensor, not to mention, this fitting will also act as a spacer as the defi oil temp sensor is too long for the -10an fitting! I was going to initially do this setup too, but I hadnt exactly seen any proven results that it would read correct and consistent data, and it was too expensive a gamble to take, as I would have to order two brand new hoses, and have two pressure gauge fittings being useless. Effectively with my car's data, there is a 15C difference between before and after the oil cooler installation. I understand by adding another 500ml (10% increase of oil capacity), plus the fact that there is a percentage of oil that flows through the sandwich plate <93C thus some portion of oil being cooled, I cannot fathom these two additional variables can equate to a 15C difference, possibly a 5-10C difference. I do believe the fact that I am now reading data at a different location fills the gap between 5-10C to make up the total difference of 15C mentioned above... I also want to note, that I have only found Greddy and SARD to offer a sump plug adapter fitting to suit Defi gauges, HOWEVER I am a little concerned that I screw in the Defi sensor into the Sard adapter, it lies flush with the end of the adapter, and not protruding as I would have hoped. I do believe this may not be an issue, as with the theory of HEAT TRANSFER, the sensor will eventually obtain a consistent temperature reading in the sump.... TL, DR: - I also experience same issue you are - Our oil cooler installation is basically identical - I believe the reasons we both see temp drop is a combination of oil cooler installation, increase in oil capacity, different location of sensor being housed. I've also PM'd you too!

Any other pictures of the car especially of front lip as described?