Matty's first 1st Gen

I hope the way i installed it will be ok, Its a bit different from other installs but i think it'll work well. I don't have any vibration absorbers on the cooler, hope its ok. Take a look, I tried to mount the cooler as close as possiable to the rad so the electric fan will pull air through it with minimal ducting. You can also see my ghetto hockey puck/dumbell engine mounts. Boy are they stiff!

-Matt

Elysian

looks like itd be ok... i think the "vibration" absorbers were more for if the part the oil cooler was mounted to flexed, the oil cooler wouldn't be stressed... not sure tho... don't see why vibration would honestly be a huge deal on the oil cooler... i'm gonna be mocking up my FC oil cooler tonight when i get home, so that i can have the hoses made for it tomorrow... gonna try a different approach, gonna get some cardboard, use that to get the shape of the actual mounts, use that card board shape, trace it on tin, cut the tin in the shape, bend it up the way i need, and test it... depending on how that works out i might have to put a small weld on that, hopefully got a bud who will do it... i'm not gonna worry about any vibration absorbing, just gonna mount it to the radiator mount thing... i'll post pics when i'm done, gonna paint the tin as well

rmriggin

how did you do your oil cooler lines? where did you get the parts to make them? thanks.

Paradox

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hockey puck engine mounts, haha thats awesome!

Matty's first 1st Gen

Haha, I love the engine mounts BTW, you have to represent Canadian style. I got my lines made up at a hydraulic shop, can withstand 2000PSI, for about 70 CDN. 2000 PSI may be overdoing it but it still come out cheaper than the stainless steel braided AN lines.

-Matt

trochoid

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Those long bolts will act as vibration dampners to some extent, just keep an eye on them for awhile to make sure they don't stress too much.

Why didn't you use the banjo bolt in the upper line? I find the lines are easier to route with the banjo. Don't sweat the 2000 psi line, mine are 2500 psi and internally steel reinforced. Overkill, just a bit.

If you have read my writeup in the archives and seen how I mounted mine, there is no worry about cooling. I too have an electric fan, set to come on about 190-195, and it seems to take forever for the engine to warm up, compared to the beehive.

Heath

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You may want to take a small piece of vacuum line, slice it down the side, and bend it around the sharp edges of the hole where the oil cooler line runs through. Over time that may rub through and cause a hole.