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]

Thanks. I think the vast majority of my brain power for the whole project was working through the harness/wiring design and actually sitting down at the engine stand and wiring it up. It was one of those "Zen things" where I sat with beer and Pandora and just worked on it a bit at a time. All the design details are in Part 9 (10?) of the write-up I did. I even drew it up on cardboard so I can replicate it relatively easily if I had to make another (which I may consider doing for the race car).

https://tgadrivel.blogspot.com/2020/03/on-m...914-part-1.html

One design priority was to have quick connects and the ability to easily remove it. I did exactly that tonight to change the coil ground to 12AWG and it took me less than a minute to have it sitting on my work bench.