What do you think of fitting an oil cooler to your car without having a thermostat ? Would you consider doing this ? My main concern is that the temperatures in Malta are so high ... around 30+ degrees C daily.

 

I have the same problem i just bought oil cooler with remote filter but it has no thermostat

 

No worries - just plumb an inline thermostat into the hoses. Mocal do them for about £50.

 

No, because your aim should be to get your oil up to working temperature as quickly as possible, then keep it there. WIthout a thermostat, it will take longer to get warmed up and then will only be controlled by how fast you are driving and how much air can pass through the cooler.

 

Yea deffo fit a thermo plate!
Im having one on my mocal oil cooler kit when i buy it

They are doing me a very good deal!

 

if you have a thermostat will that cut the oil off to the filter?

 

No it just regulates flow to the cooler. It never stops flow to the filter.

Lets say it's in a "shut" state it will just send flow back to the filter bypassing the cooler. In an "open state" it will send flow to the filter via the cooler.

 

Not so sure it's totally essential if being used in Malta.

What's the lowest temperatures you encounter over there?

For the price of either an inline thermostat or different type of sandwich plate with one built in, I'd get one for this country, but over where you are, I reckon it would pretty much be open all the time anyhow especially on a turbo car.

 

Its still worth having, what about in the winter when its cold?
Also when you start the car up you want the oil to warm up asap, with it pumping around the oil cooler it will take longer to warm up

For the sake of £40 your best to buy 1 imo

 

Well for temperatures... the water temp on the previous car that I had, in winter before starting up was always around 20-24degrees celcius lol. And that was after not been used for around 2 days.

 

I wouldn't go without thermostat on a road car...

 

The point that some are missing here is that it makes no difference whether it's Malta, Finland or the Sahara Desert...oil is not something that needs to be cooled regardless of conditions. It needs to be warmed up to at least 85 to work properly and must go no higher than 105-125 depending on who you talk to and for how long. Just because it's 10 or 20 C warmer in Malta than in the UK on average, doesn't mean Maltese air can't keep the oil overcooled when you're driving at a fair old speed off load.

 

as above, oil needs to be at a certain temperature to be effective, location means diddly squat