Show me your front oil cooler..., ...running through the fog light grills Options

[GTeener]

I'm considering adding oil coolers behind my front fog light grills. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)

Who else has done this?
What's it look like?
Are you satisfied with the results?

[lapuwali]

Someone here (I want to say Brant) did two smaller coolers, each more or less through the bumper where the fog lights go, with ducting that took that straight into the wheel wells. The major downside is that the headlight buckets have to go, too. Not a very good setup for a street car.

I figure if you're going to do something different, be really different.

For a road car, or for AX, or even track duty with a mild-ish engine, I'm not convinced a "perfect" external cooler is required. Trekkor seems to do OK with almost no venting at all, he just put the cooler in the front trunk. Much like is speculated on 911s with "trombone" cooler, much of the cooling actually takes place in the lines. I would think a very intesting cooler setup would be a "surface" cooler, where you put hard lines with fins along the outside of the longs (or even just one long), plumb the oil to these hard lines with flex hoses, and there's your cooler. Loads of surface area, and the cooler isn't all that delicate or in a spot where it's likely to be easily damaged.

Another idea, convert the engine lid into a GT style, and mount the external cooler just below the forward part of the lid. There's certainly airflow here, and lots of otherwise wasted space. On your car, mounting it on the driver's side would probably be best, since you have all of your ignition stuff on the passenger side.

Yet another idea, mount it low in the engine bay, below the tin, near the firewall. If you're not running any heat, there's lots of room here.

If you are running heat, still another idea is to mount it atop a custom fresh air box at the base of the windscreen. I've seen this done, and the report was that it cooled the engine (a 3.2, in this case) adequately, but didn't generate as much cabin heat as desired. The lines to the cooler were run down the stock heater tubes, which dump straight into the right area for the cooler.