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Well since my motor build and supercharger install I have been uncomfortable with the engine oil and coolant temps I am seeing. Engine coolant above 220 and engine oil consistently around 245/250 when ambient temp is 85 to 90 degrees. I have an LG supercool radiator and currently oil cooling is done through it due to space constraints. I also have a transmission cooler mounted in front of the intercooler. No more room left to put anything. Anyway thinking of taking the oil cooling out of the radiator and installing a couple of external oil coolers in place of the fog lights. Anybody here done that? I have seen a few posts. Can anyone share any tips on the best way to mount the coolers and maybe even a few pics. I am gonna keep the car here this time and find a way to do it at home so any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I don't have any pics but a cooler in the fog light area worked really well on my car and I talked with a guy that put one in the same place as mine with a fan on it and installed a mesh grill in the wheel well for the air to flow through. According to what he told me his temps are running, he has had better results than I did. I plan on cutting my fender well and installing a fan on mine when it comes back from tuning. The way I mounted mine is I got some galvanized 1 1/2" strapping material and cut and bent it to attach the cooler to one of the studs below the drivers headlight and the bottom is tied into the radiatator cradle.
Well I had your temps with my Z51 radiator/ cooler then put a dewitts radiator and an oil cooler mounted on the cradle between the radiator fan and balancer. Sounds like a good setup but no difference in temps, in fact it takes longer to the temps to come down after playing hard
This is the setup Im going to adopt this winter, looks promising. I plan to feed them with the brake cooler ducts and leave the fog lights in place:
Pm me your number and I'll send you the pictures of mine I was the one James/playboy is talking about. I don't know what my temps were before, but I know my oil pressure would get down to low teens when hot and now even after adding 10ft of cooler lines and oil cooler it goes no lower than 25psi which is great for me as I know it has massive clearances so I'll take it lol. Temps stay almost exactly with coolant temp @175-185.
Jeff
Last edited by inspector12; 11-17-2012 at 07:31 AM.
Well I had your temps with my Z51 radiator/ cooler then put a dewitts radiator and an oil cooler mounted on the cradle between the radiator fan and balancer. Sounds like a good setup but no difference in temps, in fact it takes longer to the temps to come down after playing hard
This is the setup Im going to adopt this winter, looks promising. I plan to feed them with the brake cooler ducts and leave the fog lights in place:
The question I have is how do you mate up with the oil cooler and transmission cooling outlets. Like what sort of adapter fits those quick disconnects.
Well you either get an adapter fitting to go from tubing to AN fitting and then make you own hoses to attach to your cooler. Or you get rid of the factory oil cooler lines and put an adapter like Lingenfelter sells and make completely new lines.
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I know this is an old thread but with the advances we have made in the C7 Z06, you might be able to adapt some of our coolers we have developed for the C7 Z06
You might even be able to add our Carbon inlet ducts in your fascia
I know this is an old thread but with the advances we have made in the C7 Z06, you might be able to adapt some of our coolers we have developed for the C7 Z06
You might even be able to add our Carbon inlet ducts in your fascia
Just a thought.
Thanks
Lou Gigliotti
LG Motorsports
Any plans to make these for the c6 platform? I would think there's a HUGE market for it....
Only reason I said that was the entry stage kit like that is $5k+. As vettes get older, people are not as willing to pay big money for stuff like this. They are already getting into the category where c6s are bought by highschool/young people that are not concerned about doing things correctly. For a c7 it makes sense, and that is an awesome setup. For a c6, it is past its prime.
11-16-2012, 12:23 AM
External Oil Coolers
