Aeroquip fittings & oil cooler install Options

[maf914]

Cowl intakes are not new. Look at all the muscle cars that run reverse hood scoops, picking up air at the base of the windshield. As the air moves across the hood it hits the windshield and slows down at the base, forming a high pressure area. Air flows from high to low pressure areas. The trick will be to make sure there is adequate exhaust from the trunk into a low pressure area under the car.

What we need are pressure measurements from the front bumper and the cowl area for comparison. But, who's got the equipment for that?

Mike

[Brad Roberts]

All Winston Cup cars pick up air for the engine from the base of the windshield in this same fashion.

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[J P Stein]

All Winston Cup cars pick up air for the engine from the base of the windshield in this same fashion.

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........and where do they put their oil coolers?

[BravoHotel]

JP,

I'm not trying to justify in the slightest that the cowl installation is the ideal location for the oil cooler. It just made sense for me in my particular installation/case. I did not want to cut into the front trunk, I do not intend to ever reinstall the airbox etc., and there is room for the hot air to escape since the stock fuel tank has been replaced by a fuel cell. Just my opinion, but I think its pretty slick.

BH

[Brad Roberts]

Above the rear end housing. They use NACA ducts in the rear windows and funnel air to coolers mounted just in front of the rear end on the body sheet metal.

I have pics somewhere.


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[Mountain914]

My personal preference for oil coolers is to keep the cooler below the level of the oil tank.....it would be nice to keep it below the engine sump also, but that ain't happening.....this minimizes "drain back".
Good access to the cooler also allows filling the cooler and lines rather than waiting for the thermostat to open and "burp" the system.

Would you say that with a 3.0L (sump system)?
I have a factory /6 cooler, too, by the way.
I'm not being argumentitive, but I have toyed with the idea of moving the cooler to the front (in search of windshield wipers for legal reasons) and always want to know how to do things better.

[makinson1]

So putting the cooler in the plenum area in front of the windshield is good, but we don't have an elegant wat to vent the hot air out of this area into a low pressure zone. Now there are a bunch of big rubber grommets behind the front bumper, and a slot open area between the bumper and the air dam. And there is a low pressure area behinf the lower air dam. Couldn't we just mount the cooler behind there, and cut an opening in the bottom of the front trunk area to vent down into the low pressure zone?
BTW, both Russell and Aeroquip advise against using teflon tape on AN fittings.
BTW2, what is the blue hose being used instread of the SS hose?

[ArtechnikA]

BTW, both Russell and Aeroquip advise against using teflon tape on AN fittings.
BTW2, what is the blue hose being used instread of the SS hose?

yes - everybody advises against using Teflon tape on AN fittings - Earl's too. Tape is just for NPT fittings.

the blue hose is typically high-pressure hydraulic hose. hydraulic implement dealers (backhoe, front loaders - like that ...) can usually fabricate whatever you need. donno if they'll have the 37-deg AN hose ends or not.

[Mountain914]

So BH - what did you end up with ?

[brant]

brad,

can you give me any details about how you blocked this area off in the tube car?

I think I want to block mine off, but can figure a way to do it that will look decent.

brant