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Old Feb 26, 2010 | 09:15 AM
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Morning all,

After searching around, I can't seem to locate what the normal range for the oil pressure to be in the C5's. Mine is hitting around 40psi at cruising speed, and 30psi at idle. Is this a safe range to be in?

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Old Feb 26, 2010 | 09:28 AM
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10psi/1K rpm's is the "old school" rule. so yea, that's plenty
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Originally Posted by tonylukes3
Morning all,

After searching around, I can't seem to locate what the normal range for the oil pressure to be in the C5's. Mine is hitting around 40psi at cruising speed, and 30psi at idle. Is this a safe range to be in?

Thanks!

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Why would you think it's not?
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yeah i can't imagine why you wouldn't think being in the dead middle of the gauges range while going down the road is abnormal.. but to each his own i suppose
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Thanks. It was more of the idle drop in pressure to 30 that I was curious about, not the cruising speed pressure.
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gotcha. 30 at idle is pretty good. i've seen less.
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gotcha. 30 at idle is pretty good. i've seen less.
Cool, thanks
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