Oil Cooler

[david.mt]

OK....after a very hard 25 mile blast this evening I was surprised how high the oil temps went (assuming the gauge was reliable). This would be a concern for heavy and prolonged track use.

Now I know there is an oil cooler in the rear side pod but not sure how effective this is. Has anyone installed a front mounted oil cooler or even a combined water radiator/oil cooler or any other cooling improvement.

If so please can you put up details and photos.

Thanks

[paulcundy]

Yes many done this. Essential for hot day track work. Here's a picky;
http://paulcundy.smugmug.com/gallery/359222#559087...
others have done the oil water cooler as well.
Regards
Paul C

[david.mt]

paulcundy said:

Yes many done this. Essential for hot day track work. Here's a picky;
http://paulcundy.smugmug.com/gallery/359222#559087...
others have done the oil water cooler as well.
Regards
Paul C

Excellent - is that the original moved to the front or another cooler in the overall system. Just wondering what other parts such as a thermostat are needed to ensure that you can get up to temperature on cold days. Are they all built individually or does someone provide a kit of all parts and lines etc somewhere?

Does the front mount cause any issue with air flow through the radiator?

[CTO3]

hi david

got JNM to adjust my standard oil cooler (similar to what robp had done previously) which involved turning it round in the sidepod to get more air directly onto it and putting some slats at the back of the sidepod to get some throughflow of air. they suggested not fitting a fan (as is on robs) and has kept the oil temps to around 105 deg c on track, which is good. admittedly not tried in on hot summer trackday yet.

hth

conleth

[peterguk V6 KWK]

Since there is so little air flow through the side intakes, i'm fitting a front mounted cooler.

[paulcundy]

david.mt said:

paulcundy said:

Yes many done this. Essential for hot day track work. Here's a picky;
http://paulcundy.smugmug.com/gallery/359222#559087...
others have done the oil water cooler as well.
Regards
Paul C

Excellent - is that the original moved to the front or another cooler in the overall system. Just wondering what other parts such as a thermostat are needed to ensure that you can get up to temperature on cold days. Are they all built individually or does someone provide a kit of all parts and lines etc somewhere?

Does the front mount cause any issue with air flow through the radiator?

No its new and bigger than OEM.

Mine has no thermostat sandwich plate but for road cars its probably best to fit a thermostat one as it speeds up engine warming.

No kit that I know off.

No problems with air flow for the radiator.

Big benefit from increased total oil volume as well.


Regards
Paul C

[Mike Tuckwood]

david.mt said:

OK....after a very hard 25 mile blast this evening I was surprised how high the oil temps went (assuming the gauge was reliable). This would be a concern for heavy and prolonged track use.

Now I know there is an oil cooler in the rear side pod but not sure how effective this is. Has anyone installed a front mounted oil cooler or even a combined water radiator/oil cooler or any other cooling improvement.

If so please can you put up details and photos.

Thanks

What temps were you seeing David, what oil are you using?


Mike.

[RobP]

As Conleth said- I have turned my cooler through 90degrees put louvred slats in the wheel arch and in this particular case added a fan. The problem is that very little air goes into the sidepod above 70mph, the slats help create some negative pressure (sucking air into the pod) but testing with and without a fan showed that the fan helped reduce max temp by about 5 degrees - not a huge amount but worth having. This benefit only accrued if you put the fan on before going out on the circuit, so a thermostat probably wouldn't help. The fan is never needed under normal driving conditions so I just have the fan on the spare switch (which also turns on the gearbox-oil cooler)

[Biggriff]

i use an oil to water cooler from mocal

[ACROWE]

Biggriff said:

i use an oil to water cooler from mocal

As do I. Very effective and takes up hardly any space.

[Biggriff]

Brilliant bit of kit