Pros/ Cons to installing oil coolers in this location
01-06-2012, 12:10 PM
#1
Drifting
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Pros/ Cons to installing oil coolers in this location
Good afternoon folks.
In my quest to tackle the heat gremlins in my S/C car, I'm looking to relocate my oil cooler from the front of the car (where it is no doubt preheating the air passing through my IC and then Rad) I'm thinking of moving it to the same location that Nich Yoshkin did (see below).
My questions are as follows:
1) If I fab up a duct from the fog light area that feeds the cooler and is sealed to the face of it, do you think it will be as efficient/ effective as it is when it's mounted at the front of the car?
2) Since I only have a single oil cooler which will be mounted on the drivers side, do you think it will do anything stupid to the aero in that wheel well? I've seen where people cut holes in the top of the wheel arches to reduce the lift in that area, would I need to do something that drastic?
In my quest to tackle the heat gremlins in my S/C car, I'm looking to relocate my oil cooler from the front of the car (where it is no doubt preheating the air passing through my IC and then Rad) I'm thinking of moving it to the same location that Nich Yoshkin did (see below).
My questions are as follows:
1) If I fab up a duct from the fog light area that feeds the cooler and is sealed to the face of it, do you think it will be as efficient/ effective as it is when it's mounted at the front of the car?
2) Since I only have a single oil cooler which will be mounted on the drivers side, do you think it will do anything stupid to the aero in that wheel well? I've seen where people cut holes in the top of the wheel arches to reduce the lift in that area, would I need to do something that drastic?
Last edited by GOTHAM VETTE; 01-06-2012 at 10:26 PM.
01-06-2012, 12:38 PM
#2
Safety Car
Fully sealed passage (i.e. a tube and then an end that forms a shroud to the cooler) from the fog light should be fine, but obviously less airflow than from the front.
I doubt the aero will be any worse than stock, but the wheel well air may screw with flow to the oil cooler.
Flip the cooler from how it is oriented in the pics, ideally both fittings should be on top to prevent pockets of air in the cooler.
I doubt the aero will be any worse than stock, but the wheel well air may screw with flow to the oil cooler.
Flip the cooler from how it is oriented in the pics, ideally both fittings should be on top to prevent pockets of air in the cooler.
01-06-2012, 01:36 PM
#3
Safety Car
Yep... you want the fittings going in from the op so the cooler fills up all the way. If mout mout it with the fittings on the side you want the cooler inlet at the bottom.
01-06-2012, 01:39 PM
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I suppose the only thing I could think of would be if you shredded a tire, that mesh in the wheel well isn't going to stop a big piece of rubber.
You are probably going to have to change the oil pump running that much oil line (one on each side of the car).
You are probably going to have to change the oil pump running that much oil line (one on each side of the car).
01-07-2012, 08:04 AM
#7
Burning Brakes
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B&M trans cooler on my 2005 C6 with an A4 Trans that I installed. after the install my car dropped 30* trans temp.
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Gutter screen stuff for brake duct hole. Removed the brake duct piping now puts air on cooler.
B&M fan trans cooler (The BIG ONE)
Panel behind the cooler I modded up for air flow
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Shimmed the fog light back with copper tubing acouple of brackets I made and longer screws
A couple of cuts to the bottom of headlight
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THANKS RAYZZZ MY CORVETTE LIKES MY MONEY
o
Gutter screen stuff for brake duct hole. Removed the brake duct piping now puts air on cooler.
B&M fan trans cooler (The BIG ONE)
Panel behind the cooler I modded up for air flow
O
Shimmed the fog light back with copper tubing acouple of brackets I made and longer screws
A couple of cuts to the bottom of headlight
o
01-24-2012, 10:26 AM
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Good afternoon folks.
In my quest to tackle the heat gremlins in my S/C car, I'm looking to relocate my oil cooler from the front of the car (where it is no doubt preheating the air passing through my IC and then Rad) I'm thinking of moving it to the same location that Nich Yoshkin did (see below).
My questions are as follows:
1) If I fab up a duct from the fog light area that feeds the cooler and is sealed to the face of it, do you think it will be as efficient/ effective as it is when it's mounted at the front of the car?
2) Since I only have a single oil cooler which will be mounted on the drivers side, do you think it will do anything stupid to the aero in that wheel well? I've seen where people cut holes in the top of the wheel arches to reduce the lift in that area, would I need to do something that drastic?
In my quest to tackle the heat gremlins in my S/C car, I'm looking to relocate my oil cooler from the front of the car (where it is no doubt preheating the air passing through my IC and then Rad) I'm thinking of moving it to the same location that Nich Yoshkin did (see below).
My questions are as follows:
1) If I fab up a duct from the fog light area that feeds the cooler and is sealed to the face of it, do you think it will be as efficient/ effective as it is when it's mounted at the front of the car?
2) Since I only have a single oil cooler which will be mounted on the drivers side, do you think it will do anything stupid to the aero in that wheel well? I've seen where people cut holes in the top of the wheel arches to reduce the lift in that area, would I need to do something that drastic?
01-24-2012, 11:08 AM
#12
Melting Slicks
The oil cooler with the connections at the bottom isn't going to have much, if any oil in it unless you have some kind of bleed hole at the top with a return line to the sump somewhere. Mounted like it is, it's just going to have a big air bubble in it, the oil is going to go a short way up into the cooler and then go across the bottom. If you get any air in the oil it's going to collect in the cooler.
Really bad way to mount a cooler.
Really bad way to mount a cooler.
01-24-2012, 12:56 PM
#13
Drifting
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The oil cooler with the connections at the bottom isn't going to have much, if any oil in it unless you have some kind of bleed hole at the top with a return line to the sump somewhere. Mounted like it is, it's just going to have a big air bubble in it, the oil is going to go a short way up into the cooler and then go across the bottom. If you get any air in the oil it's going to collect in the cooler.
Really bad way to mount a cooler.
Really bad way to mount a cooler.
I agree, the pictures are for cooler locations only. I'll be mounting them with the feed line on the bottom and exit on the top.
01-24-2012, 07:53 PM
#14
Drifting
The oil cooler with the connections at the bottom isn't going to have much, if any oil in it unless you have some kind of bleed hole at the top with a return line to the sump somewhere. Mounted like it is, it's just going to have a big air bubble in it, the oil is going to go a short way up into the cooler and then go across the bottom. If you get any air in the oil it's going to collect in the cooler.
Really bad way to mount a cooler.
Really bad way to mount a cooler.
Many factory coolers are mounted fittings down. Due to the ease of purging air vs oil it works fine, remember you are talking a decent pressure drop across a cooler.
