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Anybody have any experience with these types of oil coolers?
Link to pdf with info
From what I read, it's saying to use your coolant as the water rather than a separate reservoir as with water-to-air ICs.

Any information on this would be apppreciated because something like this could be quite beneficial to my for my setup if it works well.

thanks
ryanLink to pdf with info

SPOautos

If you ran it after the radiator when the coolant was cooler you might get good enough cooling, the main problem is that then you'll be sending warmer coolant into your engine. If you run it before teh radiator the coolant will be too hot to get the oil down to the desired temp.

To me the best way to make this work good is to drill and tap your alum radiator on the cool and hot side of the radiator. Go from the cool side over to the oil cooler then back to the hot side of the radiator. That way you basically make a closed loop, you'll be cooling it off with cooler coolant and then mixing the coolant back in with the hot coolant to go into the radiator. The only thing is you will need to do something from keeping the hot coolant from backing up into the oil cooler because that is a higher pressure side and its prob not going to work very well unless you have a small pump on it.

It would probably actually work pretty decent in conjunction with a electric water pump because then the pump isnt mounted directly to the engine. YOu could pump cooler coolant to the oil cooler and engine then when you exit the oil cooler you merge it in with the other coolant as it exits the engine or as it goes into the hitside of the radiator. That would probably work good because you'd have more pressure on your cold side since it was after the pump.

Good luck with it
Stephen

Stephen

Black91n/a

Yes, it's intended to use the water cooling system to cool the oil. There are cars equipped with that style of cooler from the factory (Miatas for one). It can be useful if you've got a car where one fluid runs hot, and the other cool. It'll help bring the systems closer in temperature to one another, but it won't increase your cooling capacity, as it's essentially taxing one system to help the other. Such an item is part of the ISC Racing cooling package for race FC's so there's definetely a use for them, even in motorsports.

If you wanted to use it plus another seperate water rad, then save your money, just run an oil to air cooler, oil is better at cooling than water, and it'll have a higher efficiency than if it has to transfer the heat to the water first. There's lots of air/oil coolers out there. The 2nd gen has great stock coolers, and 2 stock FD coolers is a pretty good setup too.

What are you trying to accomplish? What's your current setup?

http://www.iscracing.net/2nd_Gen_Parts.htm

20bfd3s

I am using similar Aeroquip oil cooler for cooling auto transmission oil, works pretty well!