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[HILLSIDECYCLE.COM]

Looking for some advice:
Motor: 2015 CVORG 110 with Full sac DX 2.o cores and GMR cam. Bike runs great and cooler than stock. Would like to add some oil cooling but the only choices I know of are:
Oil Bud
Harley +1.5 oil pan

I am leaning towards the HD oil pan, the oil bud location scares me and the extra 1.5 quarts of oil should really help Temp.

Opinions?
Other options?
reviews?

Try some Water Wetter.
Scott

[garya1]

Thanks for all the input...Except for Scott! 

The larger oil pan is out. I will wait for higher temperature days, ride it and watch it. If it does not exceed 300 I will leave it alone and ride. IF it does get over 300 on regular basis, I will then look at a "hot day, high elevation map with a little less aggressive timing.

Last resort will be oil bud or whatever cooler the aftermarket or Mother HD come up with. You know they will, eventually.

Did not mention my tuner, because I get tired of "eating s%^t over using Thundermax on all my bikes for the last 11 years. I have four units currently in operation. They really do self tune and I have never had a problem with one. I cannot say the same for PC tuned motors.

I have even had a couple on Dynos over the years and they checked the tune and AFR, all was good. Yes they can do a SLIGHT bit better with a full dyno tune, but it WORKS great for me. I quit chasing the dyno sheets a while back. I look for good torque on baggers and cool running builds. All my other builds have no wet heads but oil coolers, except the Vrod with a Trask turbo and intercooler but no oil cooler, Just a BIG RADIATOR! I do not recall ever seeing oil over 290 on the worst days.

[GMR-PERFORMANCE]

water wetter would be a ok idea if the bike held more than 1.1 qt based on that ratio you could add 1 oz of the redline product. Best bet not going to offer any lower temps..  You could try the becool pre mix coolant . Might be worth a go see if you can see any temp changes.

Being that the at speed cooling is done with pure airflow and lets not forget this is still a air cooled engine for the most part. The only upside I see to a twin cooled is that it can be much more temperature stable.  And in stop and go traffic the rads do a great job..

[garya1]

WOW, I thought Scott was joking!! Sorry Scott!

I Googled this and it actually exists. Water wetter. However reading all the disclaimers and cautions, I will stick with the coolant Mother recommends. As Steve said, the motor at speed is mostly air cooled / oil cooled

[HILLSIDECYCLE.COM]

Water Wetter works.
Scott

[mjb765]

Water Wetter works.
Scott

I use it in my '69 Super Bee....def works but agreed, you are not going to be able to add that much to the bike's cooling system due to low capacity.

[HILLSIDECYCLE.COM]

Works well in other powersports equipment with low capacities.........witnessed it.
Scott

[Phantom309]

Works well in other powersports equipment with low capacities.........witnessed it.
Scott

Big blue gotta a little drink of WW last year right after I bought my bike. I'm anal about all my fluid levels and noticed my coolant bottle wasn't where it should be so I topped it off with that ... probably more than an once or two. No problems and it's basically the same color as the HD koolaid. I had an old bottle on the shelf and figured it would be better than adding distilled water to top it off.

Red Line makes good stuff and wouldn't still be around today if they were selling snakeoil. I occasionally check my coolant temp (FP3 gives you some live readings) when on the road soon as I stop and my coolant temps are always just under or close to 200* unless I would hit some traffic. Their fuel injector cleaner also works great, I tried it one of my old japper scrappers years ago and pulled all the plugs after running a tank through and they looked almost new.

[HILLSIDECYCLE.COM]

Used it in the old shop van years ago when pulling the race trailer.
Even with a trans cooler, the little 318 would get hot.
Dosed the radiator with the WW and pulled the heat right down, even at interstate speeds of 80 mph, van loaded, trailer LOADED.
Had a hard time with heat at one time in our 280 hp, 3 cyl 1220cc Arctic Cat drag sled.(16.0 cr)
No more after the Water Wetter.