Oil Cooler Options

[StratPlayer]

Heres a shot of my oil cooler, its in a 76 2.0 efi. had this installed when I had the engine rebuilt last year,, I now have some alumn. bar installed to protect the cooler and a space saving spare.

[campbellcj]

My ravenna car had a huge Earls cooler under the rear trunk floor (like the pic above, except on the right side and farther back away from the exhaust).

It made a very noticable difference, but not enough for serious track use. Without it though, that car would essentially just keep zooming up, to 300F if you'd let it. I just ran Mobil1 in the car and prayed to the 914 gots when the temps inched over 250. At 260-270 I would immediately pull off track and go for a cool-off drive.

I suspect it might help if the cooler were tilted downwards so that it caught a bit more airflow. Or even completely "vertical" if it was one of those wide & short coolers.

Without an external cooler, my current car (2.4/four) runs about 230F max (normally more like 210-220) in street driving and interestingly stays a tad cooler than the previous car on the track. But it still gets way too f'ing hot...so it is about to get a mondo front cooler in a week or two. I will need to be able to run 30 minutes at near-redline in 100-115F ambient temps.