Oil cooler location question, ya or na Options

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914 with 2.6 liter big 4, 1971 914. Just installed the engine back in the car after redoing the heads on it. The oil cooler was mounted under the trunk above the heat exchangers. I didnt feel that was really a good location for it since the heat from the exchangers rises directly up to the oil cooler. I have decided to mount it in front of the cooling fan on the front of the engine, has anyone ever done this before? I know the air being drawn in to the engine will pull cool air through the cooler thereby giving it plenty of air flow. Do you think this will work? I know the 911's have a cooler mounted on the engine lid above the engine so I was thinking this would work the same way. The other option would be to try to mount it to the engine lid in a similar fashion. I just wanted to get some feedback on this and see if anyone else thinks this will work. I have not mounted it yet and was hoping for some input before I do it later this morning.

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Well, the cooler is 8X12X2 so I am limited on where I can put it and how I can mount it. Here is a picture of it ready to go in the car. As I said, it was mounted underneath the car directly above the heat exchanger on the passenger side. I just dont think that is a good place for it being so close to the heat exchanger. I think it would be much cooler mounted in the engine compartment up by the deck lid opening. I will ty it for now and see how it goes. He has temp gauges so he can monitor it by that. I have another cooler than is just a little smaller with a fan attached to it and can install that one in the fenderwell later in place of this one. It doesnt have the fancy smancy braided lines or AN fittings but it worked fine on my 2270 when I ran it. No leaks and cooled it great. Had the fan on a switch rather than a thermostat. If it started to get too warm, I just turned on the fan and it dropped it by about 40 or 50 degrees in like 5 minutes. But it was mounted where my heater control valve was on the passenger side on the bottom where it got a lot of air flow. We will see what happens.