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Old 07-30-2012, 03:11 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by The Radium King View Post
i looked on the ecu pinouts posted on pelican (in the engine swap tech article) and they do show an oil temp sensor for the 7.2 ecu. however, it is a 911 diagram and the boxster may not have that sensor (similar to the boxster not having an oil pressure sender - wtf). so, it would be nice to know if there is any truth to the statements i've previously read that the boxster just extrapolates oil temp from water temp or whether there is an actual sensor someplace. it would be nice to use an obd gauge instead of installing a whole new sender and having to wire from the back of the car forward. would have to wire an oil pressure sender regardless, but most of the obd gauges allow for external inputs as well so could accomplish it all with one gauge instead of two.
That might be the one...it was in winter when I last looked into it. the dgauge gives you two externals.

It may be stuck in a water jacket next to an oil gallery....water temp in two different places.....who knows. Trying running your durametric with ECU info tab open and call up engine temp and oil temp. The oil one lags behind but this from cold to 180 while idling....I will have to do one driving.

What should one expect to see for oil temperature? I would think itwould lag like I saw and then overtake water temp.

I have massive 2L deep sump so that may sku the readings for a while anyway
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