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Originally Posted by The Radium King
that's cool that the vdo sender in the head tracks temps accurately. perhaps arduino geewhizzery not required.
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Yeah, I had read somewhere that oil flow wasn't good in that location and so it wasn't a good place for oil, so I did the tests.
One area where it seemed to differ was at the very low range, like below 150-160 as things are first warming up. The first time I tested the temp gauge was after cranking up the car and idling in the garage. But after taking it out and driving and getting the oil temp up to around 170-180 and up, the gauge matched the durametric oil temp.
One surprise - water temp gets up to 180 pretty quick. Oil temp takes around an extra 10 minutes at easy 3000 Rpm street driving.