External Oil Cooler, let me see some pictures Options

[tradisrad]

I am going to install my 25 row Earls oil cooler over the 4th of july and I am looking for some more ideas, tip and tricks.

I plan on using a wafer adapter to keep my filter in the stock location. I will also install a thermostat and a fan. I will most likely mount it under the rear trunk.

I'd like to see some pictures of what others have done. Experinces on the wafer adapter vs relocating the oil filter and what thermostats are being used. I've seen the Pelican Article.

thanks
-Rob

[Joe Ricard]

I don't think I have any pictures but my 2316-210 cooled just fine from a full flow -10 hosed routed to the back where I had a 2nd gen RX-7 cooler.

Since I ran a Tangerine exhaust there was a big open spot behind the transmission. Cooler had the internal thermostate and never got above 200 even beating the snot out of it at the track in the summer.

I DO NOT like the sandwhich method of routing to an oil cooler. Only getting a small percentage of oil gets cooled. Plus getting a short enough filter to get by the clutch cable / speedo cable is a pain.

[pcar916]

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I DO NOT like the sandwhich method of routing to an oil cooler. Only getting a small percentage of oil gets cooled. Plus getting a short enough filter to get by the clutch cable / speedo cable is a pain.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) that the sandwich solution should not be the primary cooler. Some of them even raise your oil pressure a smidge. But an auxiliary cooler it makes a 15 degree-F difference in my temps. I have a truly big cooler up front that works just fine most of the time. If I were still in San Francisco it would be fine for everywhere but the track. But in the deep south summer temps are brutal, especially in the city for a street car.

That sandwich cooler is cooling liquid oil rather than the oil-foam cooled by the front cooler... more effective heat transfer.