I am looking for some more thoughts on oil coolers. I plan on fitting one at some point and I see that the majority of coolers on replica are mounted in the engine bay on the left hand side behind the body air inlet. Has anyone mounted them in different locations? The original car that I am familiar with has the oil cooler mounted up front behind the radiator. An it is a thick cooler, multipass perhaps, more like a Fluidyne style rather than the Mocal or Setrabs I typically see.
How about horizontally across the back of the car down low behind or slightly above the transaxle, has anyone mounted a cooler back there?
If I run -10 lines, is there any issue with oil pressure if the lines are too long? I know that some Porsche's put oil coolers in the fender well up front, so maybe line length is not too much of an issue. My motor has a Melling high volume oil pump, so I'd like to think I have some margin.
Lastly, my philospohy is maximizing performance and durability over everything else, so I really don't care what the technical approach looks like and additional wow factor has no value.
Many thanks
Brian
How about horizontally across the back of the car down low behind or slightly above the transaxle, has anyone mounted a cooler back there?
If I run -10 lines, is there any issue with oil pressure if the lines are too long? I know that some Porsche's put oil coolers in the fender well up front, so maybe line length is not too much of an issue. My motor has a Melling high volume oil pump, so I'd like to think I have some margin.
Lastly, my philospohy is maximizing performance and durability over everything else, so I really don't care what the technical approach looks like and additional wow factor has no value.
Many thanks
Brian