Let's Talk Oil Coolers

[LordWorm]

my favorite oil cooler:

http://www.are.com.au/products/oilcoolers.htm these guys are not far from me, they build "bent" coolers that fit in the place of stock grills. No cheap, but certainly look great and would function very very well.

If you were willing to pay their asking price, i'll drive my car down and get them to measure it up for you off my car....

 

[Sleepy]

my favorite oil cooler:

http://www.are.com.au/products/oilcoolers.htm these guys are not far from me, they build "bent" coolers that fit in the place of stock grills. No cheap, but certainly look great and would function very very well.

If you were willing to pay their asking price, i'll drive my car down and get them to measure it up for you off my car....

mmm...nice, but too visible and expensive for me.

 

[LordWorm]

mmm...nice, but too visible and expensive for me.

just looks like a fancy pants grill!

yeah hellishly expensive. ARE cooling cost a fortune, for everything they do...they make good sh!t though....

 

[LordWorm]

and just for fun and games, i rang them up and asked for a price. $900 AUD each, for a run of 5, and only 5...he said he'd only ever make 5 of them for any particular car because they are so labour intensive

so i'll take that as a no - no one iss going to buy one of those when they can get a B&M one for next to nothing.

 

[khaosman]

Holy crap that is a cool idea.

 

[xelderx]

I finally got the pressure gauge installed and I've been watching it a little. Under normal, around town conditions the pressure stays just above 50lbs and will drop to around 25lbs at idle. Under higher RPMs it looks like it can sustain around 60-63lbs of pressure with oil up to temp.

 

[magnumP5]

Where and how is your pressure sender hooked up? I'm beginning to think either mine is screwed up or I have a lot more problems than I think. My pressure sender is inline with my oil feed line (so oil is passing by it) so when it's fully warmed up my gauge reads almost "0". I really want to relocate the sender to a sandwich plate (so the oil "dead-ends" at the sender) and see if that changes anything. I only see 55+ psi at very high RPM and extreme driving.

 

[xelderx]

In the attached picture...1st post. You can see it on the right side of the oil filter plate.

 

[magnumP5]

Ah, crap, how'd I miss that. I need to get off my ass in install my sandwich plate so I can run my pressure sender off that. I'll also finally be able to get the oil temp gauge I've been meaning to get for so long and I'll still have two ports for oil cooler lines. Is 1/8 NPT too small for oil cooler lines? My sandwich plate has 4 1/8 NPT ports which is great for pressure and temp senders but I think it might be a little too small for oil lines?

 

[xelderx]

Running to a cooler 1/8" is too small. Most coolers have 1/2" NPT inlets/outlets.

 

[magnumP5]

Yeah figured as much. I've been eyeing the PG oil cooler kit for some time now but the sandwich plate it comes with has 10AN fittings which are nice for the cooler but waaay too big for pressure or temp senders. I don't think they even make 10AN to 1/8 NPT adaptors so I'd probably have to get multiple ones. I'm just really sick of running around without an oil cooler. I'm always worried about pushing it too far.

 

[Crazee D]

Moving my oil cooling discussion into here from my build thread (http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4077866#post4077866)

I am trying to determine best routing for lines and how to incorporate DocB PRV system.

Filter spin-on adapter line out goes to the relocated filter bracket/filter.
Line out of filter goes to cooler w/thermostat and return to spin on port.
Line out to turbo from a fitting (somewhere) and return drain into pan.

Now should the PRV system run best integrated with the relocate and / or cooler OR should it be isolated?
Where can I economize the # and amount of lines needed.

PICS OF SOME INSTALLATIONS

 

[Maxx Mazda]

Those are pretty savage setups!

 

[MakeMeGoFast]

Your running out of real estate under the bumper....lol

 

[magnumP5]

That second setup is pretty trick - I just don't think we have enough space back there. I guess with cutting anything is possible so who knows.