Dry Sump / Oil temp sender Options

[Charles Freeborn]

Greetings.
I've got a dry sump system on my car, 6 qt tank, dual front mount coolers.
Currently the temp sender is in the stock location (bottom of engine). Considering it's scavenged and may not have that much oil in it, is this the best location for the temp sending unit? There are a variety of other locations I could put it associated with the dry sump plumbing.
Thx.

[Charles Freeborn]

Many thanks for all of your input. I think I'll switch my current single oil temp gauge from the engine sump (stock location) to the cooler return line side. While it may get some additional cooling from the tank and it's associated plumbing, this seems a logical data point to collect. I'll also give serious thought to a second sender and gauge in the stock location to see what sort of spread I get. I suppose I could alternately locate it somewhere in the scavenge plumbing to get a differential reading. Ideally there would be some way to gauge the temp of the cases and rotating parts within, but that's above my engineering paygrade. Time to ponder.

[yeahmag]

I've got mine in the thermostat block on the "return" side to the tank. My thought was knowing that the oil in the tank isn't too hot. I have the ability to run a sensor before the cooler too, which I may do out of curiosity some day.