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 Post subject: Put in an oil cooler?
PostPosted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:40 am 
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Hi all
body is still being restored & engine not rebuilt yet.
Someone mentioned to me to install an oil cooler.
Do I need an oil cooler?
Put one in what differences will I see?
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Craig

(Edit) good for track but not necessary for daily driver?

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cd wrote:
Hi all
body is still being restored & engine not rebuilt yet.
Someone mentioned to me to install an oil cooler.
Do I need an oil cooler?
Put one in what differences will I see?
Cheers
Craig

(Edit) good for track but not necessary for daily driver?


With a good cooling system, good oil in its belly..why bother :?: (just another ancilliary that can cause problems or impede access)

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Location: Under the bonnet son!
I measured that it took 25 minutes to warm the oil up to running temperature in a warm 1330 with cooler in mild (neither hot nor cold) weather. This only dropped by five minutes if you went straight out on the freeway.

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Unless it's a track car I'd forget it. I took mine off last year. Oil pressure is still the same, except idle pressure after a freeway run is down a little for about 5 mins.
They do not make the engine run cooler.
In daily traffic, they do nothing....

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As the good Doc and Mick said .....not worth the hassle unless you are doing a concourse "S" or "GT". Just another storage place for old oil.

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Thanks all for the replies.
I will not worry about it, as the good Doc says.
I can save that money & put it towards heaps of other stuff I need.
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