oil cooler?

[level3porkproducer]

i was at the junkyard today, and saw a oil cooler on a little rice burner. i got it for 5 bucks. i was just wondering if it was worth my time to put it on my mustang. my engine is pretty much stock right now, but i was just thinkin with the oil was cooler it should run a little better, and last longer.

 

[addo]

There is a "sandwich" adaptor made to fit between the filter and engine block. You'll need this, plus some mount brackets (perhaps make them yourself) and hose/fittings.

If it never gets cold where you live, an oil cooler will help. If you do have a cold winter, then an adaptor with inbuilt thermostat may be the deal. Keeping the oil a few degrees cooler in hot weather helps take some thermal load off the water jacket.

 

[level3porkproducer]

cool sounds like i made a good choice then. any idea where to buy the adapter? all i can seem to find is the oil filter relocation kit. idont really want to move thi filter. its in a good location where it is

 

[rbohm]

8) summitracing.com sells a large variety of adapters.

 

[Henning_1966]

Here is one that should work from summit http://store.summitracing.com/partdetai ... toview=sku

 

[LaGrasta]

might be more useful as a tranny cooler instead.

 

[level3porkproducer]

well i dont think a tranny cooler will do my standard tranny any good. i guess ill just put it on as an oil cooler, just for something to work on. :roll:

 

[Eric Rose]

Just about anything with a factory turbo motor will have an oil cooler. I know that the turbo Volvo's have them, and the Volvo ones have a thermostat in the sandwich plate to open the cooler only when the oil is hot. But the Volvo's also use a smaller oil filter than Fords so the Volvo unit is a no-go for us.

The Turbo-Coupe T-Birds have a wierd kind of oil cooler that has coolant run through it. Basically it transfers the heat from the oil to the coolant. Probably more trouble than its worth.

I know Summit has the correct adapter plate for $40 or so but I am hoping to find something at the junkyard. I already have the radiator part of the cooler I swiped from an '86 Toyota Supra, its about 4"x8" and 2" deep. I know the lines are probably metric but 5/16 line fits them very snug. 8)

 

[addo]

Oil/water "coolers" are often quite effective; you don't want to dismiss them so readily. They are more of a trans fluid thing, though.

 

[Eric Rose]

Oil/water "coolers" are often quite effective; you don't want to dismiss them so readily. They are more of a trans fluid thing, though.

A lot of my friends with water cooled VW's have them and when you use the thicker 20w50 oil that VW recommends they make the coolant a little hotter than it should be. So some of what you lose in oil temps you get back in coolant temp. But this might be marginal if you have an upgraded cooling system. And a oil/water cooler would be easy to plumb in through the heater hoses.

 

[addo]

Quite a lot of the Euro trannies have them, too.

Of course, the real risk is when the cooling gets a bit marginal from neglect or odd situations. There's a really neat 2" thick type that actually mount using an oil filter style setup - outer O-ring and hollow centre bolt. You could probably fit a dual remote filter mount, then run one of these and one filter...

 

[Lazy JW]

Oil/water "coolers" are often quite effective; you don't want to dismiss them so readily. They are more of a trans fluid thing, though.

A lot of my friends with water cooled VW's have them and when you use the thicker 20w50 oil that VW recommends they make the coolant a little hotter than it should be....

The primary benefit on those is to help get that tar UP to temperature sooner so it can get into where it needs to be.

Keeping oil too cool is NOT a good thing. There are reasons why so many modern vehicles are specified for 5w-20 oils; to borrow a quote from BITOG "no oil is thin enough at startup".
Joe