DTM and extra cooler.... just thinking, Keeping the aux cooller in engine bay Options

[Mark Henry]

I have a DTM fan shroud (from Jake) and I'm building a 2.6L nickies engine.

If I was to use my DTM in my 914, it would free up a huge space in front of the engine. Just imagine taking the away the stock fan shroud and cooler and how much room you now get.
I could mount an aux. cooler, mocal, put in a fan with a thermo switch and even put a plenem up to a GT lid. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)

Good idea? Bad? Would it cool almost as good as a front cooler, or just be a wasted effort?

I've always hated the idea of running lines and hacking in a front cooler on my cherry '74. I did get the DTM for my bug, but it will be a few years till I get to it.

[cnavarro]

I have now personally seen for myself what a DTM and set of Nickies can do for an engine on the dyno. While I was down visiting Jake's last week, I got my hand at tuning with the EMS a 2563. Aside from the gobs of torque, I noticed, much to my disbelief, what idle temps the engine was running. I was stunned to see the engine idling at 175-190 F, even with the dyno cell at over 100F! Head temperatures were amazing, and only when I had messed up the AFR, did the heads heat up to 300. On average, I'd have to say with a full load the engine got to maybe 290, but that's it. The DTM just makes the world of difference and helps to squeeze out every last drop of cooling capacity that the Nickies add. What more can you say about this proven cooling combo? I recommend the DTM to every one of my customers doing an upright conversion and try to instill the virtue of the DTM in each and every one!

And back to oil temperatures, I was very impressed how the DTM handled the oil temperatures on the 2563, even after the long sessions of pulling continuous high rpms for tuning the FI. Unless you're planning some crazy stuff, the oil cooling provided by the DTM is more than sufficient.

Charles Navarro
LN Engineering
http://www.LNengineering.com
Aircooled Precision Performance