Se- oil cooler on an 81... need mounting help
 

Hey, im about ready to pull my air/oil cooler off my parts car gsl-se and put it on my 81.... if you dont know by now my car is an 81 with an 83 engine so i got the fucking beehive pos...

ive been looking and i cant figure out where to mount the oil cooler or how to mount it... any advice would be greatly appriceated.. and if anyone has pics of the same deal im doing please post pics of how you mounted it.

thanks

-greg

If you hvae the 79-82 radiator, it just bolts underneath it. If you have the 83-85 radiator, you either have to get a 82 radiator. or fab up a way to mount it up in front under the header panel. i think that's what most people do. Personally, my radiator was nasty, do i just got the 82 and bolted it all underneithe. That's the easy part though. what sucks is capping of the hard water lines that go to the behive oil-cooler.

so your saying the 85 oil cooler will bolt up to my 81 radiator?...

-greg

hmm... i dunno for sure, but i dont see why it wouldnt. Is the cooler any different than the s1-2 cooler?

yes ive been told it is different and the series 1-2 are better made... but im using what i got because my behive leaks like 2 ounces of oil just durring warmup and that is unacceptable..

-greg

Why not change the 4 O rings?
How hard is that?

Now when them oil lines leak ..what would you rather spend... $100. on 2 lines...
or $1.00 on 4 O rings?

hmmm... but isint the air/oil cooler better at cooling the oil?.... plus.. you can get oil cooler hose kits from jegs for cheaper than 100 bucks and they will last 10 times longer than the stock hoses..

-greg

your better off putting the oil cooler in front of the radiator...... get a drill some wires and it should do it...

wires? to hold it with? some 3/16" aluminum might be a better idea. You could just bend it to make some brackets to mount it with. then screw it in.

as long as its nice and secure....

no 79-82 has a smaller radiator and the oil cooler mounts below it, so youd have to swap to an older radiator to get it to mount below it, you will have to mount it like the SE and hope the old lines and such from the Se work... You will also have to change the oil pedestial too.

Anyone ever seen an oil cooler with 4 o rings, I havent. Most of them only have 2 , when you remove the o filter pedstial or oil cooler pedestial, theres only 2 below it...

And get Viton o rings, shit better than that mazda crap they used.

Yeah, why not just put in the 4 orings?

B

where can someone get these Viton o-rings?

-zac

try EBAY first... then MAZDATRIX... then MAZDA DEALER...