aba oil pressure question

[mizzuh]

what should be the operating oil pressure for a 2.0 aba.

the reason i ask is, I installed my new oil pressure gauge and duing a cold start up it reads 60 psi. and when revved it shoots up to 100+ (im pretty sure this is not correct)

after running for appx 10-15 minutes, the oil pressure gradually drops to 35-40 at idle, and then shoots up to 80+ when revved.

dont know if it makes a difference, but my oil pressure gauge is tapped into one of the existing ports by the oil filter.

what numbers should i actually be seeing? and what could be the cause of this?

[Prof315]

Those are decent basically normal numbers

[foundonroadead]

what are you using for oil?

[mizzuh]

5w-40 i beleive. maybe 10.

[GTijoejoe]

Our numbers are very similar.... I see maybe 25psi at idle w/ 5w-30

[1997SLOW]

anywhere from 10-22 t idle is good but your supposed to hold in at 2 grand as long as its around 35 at 2000 your okay

[Anony00GT]

Service manual FTFW. If you had one, you'd know

VW spec is 2.0 bar at 2000RPM, 80*C.

Max 7.0 bar above 2000RPM

[1997SLOW]

that dosent really help im goin off of what my machinist said and techtonics tuning they said what i stated above

[Anony00GT]

that dosent really help im goin off of what my machinist said and techtonics tuning they said what i stated above

How does that not help? It's direct from the factory service manual.

If you convert bar to psi, what you posted is about right. I guess you don't speak Metric?

[greyhare]

2.0 bar = 29.00755 psi
7.0 bar = 101.5264 psi
80*c = 176*F

[1997SLOW]

now thts some good info