More Rear Mount Oil Cooler Questions, Setrab Setup Options

[BeatNavy]

I'm trying to nail down why I'm having oil cooler issues. Specifically, I've blown two sandwich plate adapter seals in the same place / manner. In addition, during my test drives I wasn't necessarily thrilled with the temp drop I was seeing.

First, I'm running the Setrab oil cooler and Setrab sandwich plate adapter. Anyone else running the Setrab sandwich plate adapter without any issues? I know I'm not the ONLY one, but how many people run this as opposed to something like the Mocal setup?

Second, when I contacted Pegasus Racing to order more seals, I spoke to the tech guy who gave me some food for thought. The most interesting thing was he said the oil cooler needs to be mounted with the inlet and outlet ports facing up, otherwise the cooler won't fill up all the way and you won't get ideal (or any) cooling.

Here's my setup with it angled somewhat down for what I hoped was good airflow: http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?s=&...t&p=2826235

Essentially he says the oil takes "the path of least resistance" which could largely be from the inlet port to the outlet port using few of the cooling rows. I assumed the pressure would fill the cooler, but I can see what he's saying. Any thoughts on that? If that's the case, I really need to completely redo my mounting setup and plumbing.

[GregAmy]

Rob, next time I'm driving I can shoot the IR onto the oil change and taco plates and see how well they correlate to the dipstick.

I like the idea of a cooking thermo to check air temps under there.


Edit: as a somewhat-related aside, I'm also surprised at the enginecompartment/air intake temps on my car. I've got the Intake Air Temp sensor inserted into the bottom of the stock D-Jet air cleaner, and I'm regularly seeing IATs of 130F+ at cruise, and that's with the rain tray removed...so that's all going into the intake for cylinder/head cooling. And that's with all new seals all around the engine tin...