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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ Show me your front oil cooler shrouding

Posted by: Aaron Cox May 28 2005, 09:27 PM

Show one, show all! show me your front cooler pics!

thx fellers
AA

Posted by: Series9 May 28 2005, 09:29 PM

I think you've seen it:

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Posted by: campbellcj May 28 2005, 11:43 PM

Here's mine -- extreme overkill, but I could run summer desert enduros without worrying if I ever got to that point. So far I have never seen over 200°F on the gauge even in half hour track sessions in 100+ ambient temps.

The cooler is a giant MazdaSpeed Motorsports unit, fully shrouded with a 32" x 6" intake and exhaust thru the trunk floor. Troutman thermostat, AN-12 lines, Mobil 1 15W-50, factory tank. I usually tape-off most of the intake grille when it's not blazing hot out.

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Posted by: racerbvd Feb 15 2006, 04:50 PM

How about a 914-6GT styled one?? I need plans for my conversion

Posted by: brokenmoped Feb 15 2006, 06:36 PM

Here's the home depot approach...
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Posted by: Headrage Feb 15 2006, 06:38 PM

[QUOTE=brokenmoped,Feb 15 2006, 04:36 PM] Here's the home depot approach...
Trekkor help you with that?

Posted by: Elliot Cannon Feb 15 2006, 06:40 PM

I like the Home Depot approach. Where does the air exit? Got a wider picture?
Elliot

Posted by: brokenmoped Feb 15 2006, 06:58 PM

Aimed right at the rotor...
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Posted by: Wild 6 Feb 15 2006, 07:12 PM

This is what I did with my old 914. Venting through the wheel wells really worked better than the floor pan. I learned that lesson the hard way.

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Posted by: Van914 Feb 15 2006, 07:27 PM

Chris C.
Iwould like to know more about the Madzaspeed oil cooler.

Thanks
van914

Posted by: trekkor Feb 15 2006, 10:26 PM

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Trekkor help you with that?

That made me laugh.

Mine-

KT

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Posted by: Marv's3.6six Feb 16 2006, 12:08 AM

914-6GT styled one, in CF

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Posted by: Marv's3.6six Feb 16 2006, 12:12 AM

And cooler install, hand fab bracket on rubber isolator mounts.

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Posted by: RON S. Feb 16 2006, 05:57 AM

Mine is standard fare.

Mazda OC,-16 lines to & from,Canton oil filter on the outlet side,3 cooling fans on the backside,ducted thru the floor.

Ron

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Posted by: RON S. Feb 16 2006, 05:59 AM

Cooler itself I've massively re-worked.

I made the end tak removable so as to adjust the baffle-ing and to facilitate cleaning.

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Posted by: RON S. Feb 16 2006, 06:05 AM

Backside,

I boxed the area under the oc,and also under the floor pan along the 2 ribs that run front to back under the front floor pan.

You can't believe how structurally stiff the front pan area has now become with those 2 mods.

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Posted by: RON S. Feb 16 2006, 06:10 AM

Bottom side.

I programmed a piece from 16GA. steel to effectively box the area.

Basically it turned those stiffening ribs into tubes which are stronger.

Bear in mind these are old pics from a couple years back.

Ron

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Posted by: TimT Feb 16 2006, 09:22 AM

ooops wrong car

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Posted by: brant Feb 16 2006, 10:14 AM

I've got to do it:

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Posted by: brant Feb 16 2006, 10:14 AM

and exit:

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Posted by: maf914 Feb 16 2006, 10:27 AM

Brant, Your installation is beautiful. Looks great.

Do you get much debris buildup on the outlet screens?

Posted by: brant Feb 16 2006, 10:43 AM

QUOTE (maf914 @ Feb 16 2006, 09:27 AM)
Brant, Your installation is beautiful. Looks great.

Do you get much debris buildup on the outlet screens?

I was worried I might, but actually zero.

I thought I would find rubber packed in there, but when we started doing the cleaning this winter I found only 1 pebble on only1 side, and was able to blow it out with compressed air.

brant

Posted by: Brian Mifsud Feb 16 2006, 10:52 AM

QUOTE (RON S. @ Feb 16 2006, 04:05 AM)
Backside,

I boxed the area under the oc,and also under the floor pan along the 2 ribs that run front to back under the front floor pan.

You can't believe how structurally stiff the front pan area has now become with those 2 mods.

Ron,

I'd carefully watch those pancake/tubeaxial fans. I've worked with using those things for 15 years in various cooling capacities. They don't take shock very well since they are designed for cooling computers. Most have only sleeve bearings. I see 2 out of 3 are possibly Pabst EBM brand, but can't read the label. They tend to be the best quality in that category, but we get dead fans all the time from being bumped. Keep an eye on them and verify that they are ACTUALLY running..

Also I I may suggest.. the spaces between the fans and the ends of your heat exchanger ought to be blocked off.. otherwise you'll be recirculating the air between the front hood area and outside.

A better performer, if you can spare the space... build yourself a little manifold at least a couple of inches deep and mount the fans to that instead of directly on the cooler. That will insure even cooling on your whole oil cooler and better efficiency.

Posted by: slugmika Feb 16 2006, 01:25 PM

Mine
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There's just big holes under the tank and one big in a hood.

Its kind of hard to see from this picture because hood is upside down

Mika

Posted by: slugmika Feb 16 2006, 01:36 PM

Better one
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