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| VWTortuga336 |
 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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| ThePaintedMan |
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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| VWTortuga336 |
Oct 7 2015, 08:43 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 285 Joined: 5-October 14 From: Kansas City, Missouri Member No.: 17,979 Region Association: None |
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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| Dave_Darling |
Oct 7 2015, 02:55 PM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,986 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California
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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. --DD |
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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 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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