Turbo Oil cooler advice please

[sapper]

Anybody fitter an oil cooler alongside their intercooler? If so which one did you get and have you any tips for fitting.
There isn't much room up front but I'm looking to try and fit a 19 fin cooler if possible.
Only thing is my car is away for painting so I can't measure up just yet.

[Pupp]

As the nose on mine has a large charge-cooler rad piggy-packed on the front of the coolant radiator, I stuck the oil cooler in the flat panel in front of the rad - it lies at an angle following the line of the bonnet (effectively let into but rising out of the panel on swan neck brackets). Works fine although I'm not at all sure which way air flows through the core...

[macdeb]

I fitted two, one either side and on end so as not to obstruct any air-flow through intercooler and radiator. Also fitted a remote full size oil filter and oil thermostat as I didn't want the oil too cold either. I got 'Pirtek' to make up the oil lines as I didn't want to use jubilee clips.

Edited by macdeb on Tuesday 28th March 10:06

[Discopotatoes]

I had a large oil cooler in front of the rad used a mocal thermostatic take of plate, but I'm trailing a modine water oil cooler which fits where the take off plate did

[phillpot]

macdeb said:

I fitted two............

Discopotatoes said:

I had a large oil cooler...........

What diameter oil hose you guys use?

Read somewhere, as a rough rule, should be 5/8" for engines over 3 litre?

[Discopotatoes]

phillpot said:

macdeb said:

I fitted two............

Discopotatoes said:

I had a large oil cooler...........

What diameter oil hose you guys use?

Read somewhere, as a rough rule, should be 5/8" for engines over 3 litre?

Can't remember exact size but 3/4 rings a bell, and it was the large port mocal takeoff I used

[davetripletvr]

I had a 16 row Mocal oil cooler fitted in the nose on the drivers side, fits just nice where the original oil coolers were fitted for the Malaysian market(so i'm told) and the vents were already cut in the fibreglass underneath although some fibreglass work was done to direct the air. The cooler and pipework were all on the advice of Eann Whalley who did the Turbo/Ecu install.

[sapper]

Cheers guys, could you add some pictures please. There are some vents cut into the front of my car, always wondered what they were for.

[Discopotatoes]

sapper said:

Cheers guys, could you add some pictures please. There are some vents cut into the front of my car, always wondered what they were for.

Not the greatest picture the cooler was bolted to the top of the nose cone with rubber mounts, so is a bit bigger than you can see

[Richard 858]

As I had removed my carbon can, I moved my washer bottle back to the newly available space and fitted a 26 row 115 matrix mocal cooler where the washer bottle had been (if you see what I mean). The airflow comes from both the opening below the o/s/f indicator and the o/s of the lower front opening.