Griffith 500 oil cooler
Discussion
Years of being into performance cars sometimes leaves bits laying around. After a tidy up I found an oil cooler I removed from a car I had donkeys years ago.
Seems oil filter sandwich plates aren't hard to find or expensive.
Is it worth fitting it to my Griffith? Bearing in mind the under bonnet temperatures these cars can create I think as the summer comes it may not be a bad idea.
Thoughts?
Seems oil filter sandwich plates aren't hard to find or expensive.
Is it worth fitting it to my Griffith? Bearing in mind the under bonnet temperatures these cars can create I think as the summer comes it may not be a bad idea.
Thoughts?
I’d consider one if it was thermostatically controlled, otherwise IME it’d only make warm up times longer. Is another thing to bleed, getting holed, leak etc.
Or if I was doing a lot of high ambient temp running. The temp gauges aren’t accurate for coolant, at least versus my ECU output until up to temp, but with twin fan control and a healthy coolant system I haven’t seen issues (continental tours etc.)
However I don’t have an oil temp sensor in the system to monitor the real oil temps versus coolant temps for exact comparison. Oil pressure gauges aren’t much more accurate either, again though mine doesn’t lose much when it’s really warm.
Do you have symptoms to fix or just a spare oil cooler?
Or if I was doing a lot of high ambient temp running. The temp gauges aren’t accurate for coolant, at least versus my ECU output until up to temp, but with twin fan control and a healthy coolant system I haven’t seen issues (continental tours etc.)
However I don’t have an oil temp sensor in the system to monitor the real oil temps versus coolant temps for exact comparison. Oil pressure gauges aren’t much more accurate either, again though mine doesn’t lose much when it’s really warm.
Do you have symptoms to fix or just a spare oil cooler?
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