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ive got an oil pressure gauge hooked up to my rb25det. What im interested in is what good opertation tempreture and pressure is best. The way i look at it now is when its safe to start reving out gears. when the oil is cold the pressure with move high and rappedly so if i go to put my foot down it will shoot to or past 100psi, so i know that the oil prob is not at a good pressure or temp to protect my engine yet. So at the other end of the scale 0 psi i know that i have a big oil leek and can stop befor damage.

So if any one has experiance say track work were you whatch oil pressure and temp and can offer better info then my crued understanding that would be great.

-im interested in the rb25 so anything that relates to pressure and temp of oil in these engine would be good.

cheers.

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It seems to differ from car to car (depending on oil type, oil filter type) but my understanding is idle oil pressure should be around 2 bar.

When I start my car cold, oil pressure on idle sits at 3 bar. I dont give the car a hard time until the oil temp comes up to 70 degrees on the factory gauge and oil pressure has dropped to 2 bar also on the factory gauge (gtr). Seems to have worked for me so far...

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