Ideal Gauge Positions For Oil Pressure, Oil Temp And Coolant Temp?

[ATK 137 1 Cars]

I know the gauges are notoriously unreliable but once engine warmed up what sort of positions should I be seeing for each? Cheers.

[Anthony 1,000]

 

Coolant temp - around 80-90 degrees depending on thermostat

Oil temp - really depends how hard you're driving! Likely will read minimum bumbling around town (esp. in winter), 80-100 degrees on the motorway, and higher on track without an oil cooler.

Oil pressure - around 1-2 bar at hot idle, around 4-6 bar at 4000rpm (nominally 5 bar on XU5/9, 6 bar XU10)

 

Oil pressure gauge reading in particular should be treated with a sizeable pinch of salt.

[ATK 137 1 Cars]

Spot on cheers Anthony, looks like mine are all good (particularly oil pressure even if i add in a pinch of salt!)

Also how quick generally should coolant come up to temperature?

[Anthony 1,000]

Coolant will get upto temperature quickly, within a couple of miles usually, but oil will take much longer.

[ATK 137 1 Cars]

Great thats ok then wasnt sure if i was getting up to coolant temp too quick after my coolant change.

[sebascalderon85 2]

My oil pressure Gauge doesn't go up from 2 Bar, and at full throttle is 2.3 bar. Can something be wrong? it has been like that for 1.5 years.

 

Any leads?

[Anthony 1,000]

Probably a duff sender if it doesn't go higher than that even on cold.

[mrfirepro 127 1 Cars]

Interesting, my oil pressure is 50 psi/3.5 bar, but my dash gauge never shows more than around 2/2.5 bar (cold), I'd always put this down to crappy gauge as I fitted a new OPS unit, could this be the sender unit?