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VWTortuga336
post Oct 4 2015, 07:49 PM
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What would be my best solution for adding an oil cooler on the 2366 build I am starting? I've read about coolers that mount under the rear of the car and are cooled with a fan. Is this the right direction?
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post Oct 6 2015, 09:12 PM
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Shane (Jetsetsurfshop) built a similar engine for his car. He tried all kinds of arrangements of ducting for a rear-mounted cooler. Found out he could only keep it cool with a front-mounted cooler. Granted, this is a track car, but even on the street, that's a lot of heat for a rear-mounted setup to deal with. Yes, the plumbing sucks, but in the long run, I still think it's better to just get it up front where it belongs.
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post Oct 7 2015, 08:43 AM
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QUOTE(ThePaintedMan @ Oct 6 2015, 10:12 PM) *

I still think it's better to just get it up front where it belongs.


That seems to be the concensus. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this? If I do a front cooler, how do I keep the hot air from just getting hung up in the trunk? What about putting the cooler in the floor of the trunk, rather than the front of the car?
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QUOTE(VWTortuga336 @ Oct 7 2015, 07:43 AM) *
If I do a front cooler, how do I keep the hot air from just getting hung up in the trunk? What about putting the cooler in the floor of the trunk, rather than the front of the car?


The factory racers put the cooler at the very front of the front trunk. They cut holes for the air coming in, had ducting to make sure the air went through the cooler, then more ducting to run the air out the trunk floor. That's pretty much the "proper" way to do it. You can probably do much the same thing, and have the cooler on the trunk floor instead of at the front of the trunk. I suspect that the cooling effect will be about the same, because the air flow will be about the same, but I could be wrong.

I've only seen a couple of 914s with coolers in front of the body. One had it mounted as a very thick license plate bracket; that seemed to work pretty decently in the Pac NW. Others have put them in cut-out fiberglass versions of the 75-76 Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers. Not sure how the air was ducted away from those. They were there because of racing rules that prohibited holes in the body for cooling air.

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VWTortuga336   Oil Cooler for 2366?   Oct 4 2015, 07:49 PM
Dave_Darling   Probably not. The amount of oil cooling an engine...   Oct 5 2015, 09:14 AM
Dion   I have hi-comp 96mm P&C "2056". 91...   Oct 5 2015, 09:16 AM
Vacca Rabite   Tell us about your 2366. I would imagine that it...   Oct 5 2015, 10:07 AM
VWTortuga336   Tell us about your 2366. Sorry about that, I ...   Oct 5 2015, 10:57 AM
Racer Chris   Tell us about your 2366. Bursch exhaust 2.0 S...   Oct 6 2015, 06:28 AM
VWTortuga336   [quote name='VWTortuga336' post='2247884' date='O...   Oct 6 2015, 07:00 AM
Dave_Darling   Put the cooler up front, and hope. The cast-iron ...   Oct 5 2015, 04:55 PM
ConeDodger   Put the cooler up front, and hope. The cast-iron...   Oct 5 2015, 05:06 PM
r_towle   Put the cooler up front, and hope. The cast-iro...   Oct 5 2015, 08:18 PM
Dave_Darling   A design that worked for almost 30 years. 30 yea...   Oct 5 2015, 08:29 PM
r_towle   A design that worked for almost 30 years. 30 ye...   Oct 5 2015, 08:39 PM
Dave_Darling   Have you owned one? I have and still do. So you...   Oct 6 2015, 02:46 PM
Mueller   Put the cooler up front, and hope. The cast-iron...   Oct 5 2015, 07:58 PM
VWTortuga336   Put the cooler up front, and hope. The cast-iro...   Oct 5 2015, 08:21 PM
Dion   [quote name='Mueller' post='2248129' date='Oct 5 ...   Oct 5 2015, 08:56 PM
Reno914   Are you planning on running the stock fan and cool...   Oct 5 2015, 05:00 PM
VWTortuga336   Are you planning on running the stock fan and coo...   Oct 5 2015, 07:51 PM
JmuRiz   Give Racer Chris a call and he'll come up with...   Oct 6 2015, 08:26 AM
wndsrfr   Give Racer Chris a call and he'll come up wit...   Oct 6 2015, 10:56 AM
r_towle   Or you could talk to more than a few people, inclu...   Oct 6 2015, 05:29 PM
Cevan   Or you could talk to more than a few people, incl...   Oct 6 2015, 05:41 PM
r_towle   Or you could talk to more than a few people, inc...   Oct 6 2015, 08:21 PM
ThePaintedMan   Shane (Jetsetsurfshop) built a similar engine for ...   Oct 6 2015, 09:12 PM
VWTortuga336   I still think it's better to just get it up f...   Oct 7 2015, 08:43 AM
Dave_Darling   If I do a front cooler, how do I keep the hot air ...   Oct 7 2015, 02:55 PM
914werke   As sort of mentioned already, any effort to improv...   Oct 7 2015, 09:11 AM
VWTortuga336   I'd like to keep the stock front valence and b...   Oct 7 2015, 06:58 PM
stugray   Some ideas in here: http://www.914world.com/bbs2/i...   Oct 8 2015, 09:54 PM
VWTortuga336   Thanks Stu, that helps a lot. I really like Trekk...   Oct 9 2015, 06:28 AM
stugray   Also, silly question time - how should I run the ...   Oct 9 2015, 10:16 AM
VWTortuga336   I'll bet that you could even use flared coppe...   Oct 9 2015, 10:50 AM
914mikee100   Eric Shea sells a kit at PMB.   Oct 9 2015, 11:04 AM
rtalich   Eric Shea sells a kit at PMB. Link?? Don't ...   Oct 9 2015, 12:58 PM
stugray   [quote name='914mikee100' post='2249727' date='Oc...   Oct 9 2015, 07:00 PM
VWTortuga336   I didn't either. I saw some custom ones he bui...   Oct 9 2015, 01:15 PM


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