Oil cooler location revisited, How 'bout the hell hole? Options

[East coaster]

Has anyone installed an oil cooler in the battery tray/hell hole area?? I was looking at this area and thinking that if the battery is relocated this spot could be used for an oil cooler/fan combo with the hot air being spent into the passenger side wheel well. Keeps the oil lines close and keeps both trunks unaltered (except for relocated battery!). I don't know how much ambient flow would occur with this installation, but a fan(s) should be able to push enough air??

Here's a really quick and really bad photoshop pic of what I mean:




My apologies to whomever I stole the hell hole pic from....it's not easy being green (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[brant]

Yes.. cutting into the fender is cutting...
but without it you can't pull in much clean air.
the problem with that area is that you won't pull in to much air (none clean) through the engine grill...


plus your fighting the engine for air
plus the hot air exit will be re-filling the engine intake with pre-warmed air...

So what oil cooler/and what air flow did the factory use on that 3.6engine?

If they felt it needed a cooler in a clean air path then it probably does...

you don't have to totally waste the front trunk if you do it right...
talk to someone who has done a 3.6 conversion... (I haven't).. but I'll bet they require a front cooler.

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