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My 2020 718 Spyder typically shows water temperature at 218 to 221 degrees though I haven't driven it hard yet to learn what effect that would have on coolant temperature. Currently it has less than 1100 miles on the odometer. At some point when the pavement temperatures are bit higher I'll take it for a drive to develop a better feel for how the Spyder handles and reacts to aggressive driving.
No change to slight increase. Looking at the gauge red zones, oil has a much higher threshold than water. Just looking at the delta on the bars. I mean this is on public roads, so hard to tell how much lower water temps impact oil over a longer time. Still 38 degree drop in a few seconds is pretty cool.
Pretty well much the same Down Under - tooling around town runs at around 220 with oil at 235 but cranking up her over 70mph on the Freeway and the temp suddenly drops 40°F - keeping the revs 3-5k
Last edited by Mercuriell; 12-06-2020 at 04:16 AM.
In the non-GT 991, coolant temperature is always pegged in the middle even with sport and sport plus. It was just a dummy gauge that doesn’t show real time change.
Oil temp is real time and drops when you go into sport/ sport plus mode. Even battery voltage goes up for some reason when you go into sport/ sport plus.
Interesting how the Spyder drops coolant temperature but not oil temperature. Wonder what kind of algorithm is going on. Maybe a mid-engine thing?
Or did you guys wait long enough?
It takes a lot longer for oil temp to drop compared to coolant.
Interesting how the Spyder drops coolant temperature but not oil temperature. Wonder what kind of algorithm is going on. Maybe a mid-engine thing?
Pretty sure that if I was over at COTA, and not public roads lol, that a 40 deg F engine coolant drop would over time stabilize or lower oil temps. I think someone above noted center radiator was opening -- that makes sense sense the drop is so rapid.
I'm not an automotive engineer, but it would seem that managing engine coolant temps is the place to focus efforts on -- for a variety of reasons.
I am thinking the car goes into ‘sport mode’ automatically during sustained aggressive/ high revs driving.
There is no sport button to press, the car decides for you.
Oil temp probably will drop eventually if you keep at it.
In my 991.1 C2S, I would say it takes at least a few minutes if not longer to see oil temp dropping if you go into sport/ sport plus. In that car, PDK also holds lower gear longer during aggressive throttle and braking inputs, or high lateral Gs. The PDK goes into sport mode automatically even in normal mode.
Does the battery voltage increase when you see the coolant temp drop?
Re the comments about the center radiator "opening"- all three radiators are active, there are no valves involved. As mentioned in other threads there is a "map controlled thermostat". It has a heating element which is used to apply different cooling modes.
12-04-2020, 03:50 PM
Operating Temps
