If you have an oil question you should really as it over on the Bobistheoilguy forum. confounded with the cooling characteristics of the plugs themselves. But you can get a similar picture looking at the plugs, which also indicate cylinder temp. Exhaust and head temps are the most sensitive and give you a picture of what is happening on each side-mostly of your mixture. Your tuning has a big effect (next to outside temp and riding conditions). The oil off the head tends to lead and it takes a long time to equalize with sump temp-but I'm still gathering data and don't have a really clear picture yet. But I also have a lot of cooling gear and a hot running engine. I measure oil temps coming off the head at the push rod tube and in the back of the sump. Mine goes well over 320F coming off the head in heavy slow traffic on a warm day. it will go a lot higher at low speed running (thick traffic) or with very heavy loads (including abnormal loading, like a brake or clutch problem). Check the bob is the oil guy site for data on that. Temp of what? The two that matter are oil temps and head temps.Īt sea level you want your oil temps at 212F minimum. for an airhead? I did a search and didn't see anything of note. Just for the heck of it - checked oil temp. tweaking and putting new fuel lines on my '86 Naked R80.
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