hey just wondering if anyone has pics of their oil cooler installed

anything any closer?

closer to Adelaide?

This is where I ended up mounting mine in a clubbie. The other option is down off the subframe.

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Before you go to the effort of fitting an oil cooler how high are your oil temps now?
Oh, you have never measured the oil temp?
So why do you want an oil cooler?

cause the cooper s had one

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If you are going to drive 500 miles flat out on a hot day using the oils that were available in 1966 you might need one.
But if you actually measure the temperatures you will find that most Minis run too low an oil temp and not too high. The alloy sump is a very effective oil cooler.

My 1360 runs the same pressure (70psi) with or without the cooler, so it's on the shelf now.
It'll only go back on for track days.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

I have found my old oil temp dipstick probe (off my F Vee) and I am going to do some testing with it. (It is a temperature sender that replaces the dipstick)
I will set it up soon and see what temps I am getting. Seeing how it was -2° outside this morning I can bet that I don't need a cooler.

its a pretty worked motor and i would like the peace of mind that the oild is not to hot so just in case one day i do take it on a track im not going to do great damage to it, and it looks the part

By all means stick the probe in, but I don't think it will make much difference on your Cooper S.
KB

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I have a dipstick temp probe and tested the oil temp on the Black S both with and without oil cooler. I took the oil cooler off and have left it off. This is an occasional road driver, engine is not standard and I do like to drive it. This is in tropical high humidity FNQ.

On the other hand, on the race car I run a 16 row cooler and around Morgan Park where fair bit of full noise 2nd & 3rd gear work is done, regularly see oil temp way past the green zone after 4 laps. The oil temp sender is in the gear case just above the sump plug.

Use Castrol Edge 25W50 in both. Oil cooler not needed for road car.

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Steve

gearbox in sump = oil cooler,
mine is mounted where the 3 holes are beneath the number plate on my clubby.

I've mentioned this a few times in other threads, I fitted an oil temperature probe to the inlet of the oil cooler on the Mk2 Cooper S.

I found that it took about 20 minutes of normal driving for the oil to get to 80 degrees C (And I was no shrinking violet behind the wheel either) and it went down to 15 minutes if you jumped straight on the freeway. It generally stayed there unless there was a traffic jam and it was summer. That's a long time on cold oil if you consider most trips will be less than 20 minutes..

Knowing the temperature was soooo low in winter for so long, I ended up putting a piece of clear plastic in between the grill and the oil cooler to warm things up little.

I think the scrapings that once made up 60s sump oil are long gone. The need to keep oil cooler than 110 where it used to begin to break down is long past. Modern oils are like comparing a 2008 Ford Falcon to a 65 model Ford Falcon.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

On the GT's which had them as standard, they were mounted just behing the numberplate on a braket that was bolted to some tabs that came of the holes in the front beaver panel.

On my 78 clubby i drilled holes in two bits of plate and mounted it on the plates which bolted into my subframe.

But where you have will probably work more effectivly

Brenton

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