External Oil Cooler, In the rear fender???? Options

[jr91472]

So I am starting to think about winter projects and it is time to do something about my oil temps for summers here in Texas. I am looking to knock off about 20degs or so.

I am not interested in putting the cooler up front.

Has anyone ever heard or tried to put one in the pax rear fender well. I would think it would be a cooler setup than mounting over the tranny. I haven't completely scoped out how things would route, but I am thinking I would have to cut a hole in the engine tin (forward / right corner - perhaps near the pax J-tube hole) to get the hoses high enough to get above the long. Then cut through the inner fender somewhere just forward of the battery tray to get into the fender well.

This may have bad idea written all over it, so I thought I would through it out there.

Comments or other ideas?

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[IronHillRestorations]

I put one in the passenger side rear fender. IIRC it was a 25 row Mocal. The most fun was getting the mounting holes for the brackets (home fab'd) in the correct location. Initially I had a thermostatically controlled fan mounted directly to the cooler, but it ran too much and I guess the motor fried. Either way it did a pretty good job of cooling the 3.0.