I would like to put a oil cooler on my car. Is there any way to mount the lines off the oil filter so I dont have to remove the engine? I want to retain the factory cooler and add another cooler under the engine cover. I have a engine lid that has 32 small louvers stamped in it to allow more air to come thru to help the heat build up. This is not a race car but the oil temp needs to come doen when I drive for several hours.

Bernie

Yeah; what you need is called a "sandwich plate". It goes between the filter and the filter console thingie, and provides AN fittings for the cooler oil lines.

Thanks

Bernie

Do those things work well? If yo put san external oil cooler in the front, how much more oil do you need circulating around, assuming the oil cooler is "standard size": for a 914-4. Not really sure how oil coolers are sized....

Bernie, what are your oil temps?

Oil coolers come in various sizes and flavors.

For a car that is track-driven at all, you are well advised to put it up front. Most reports (including my previous car) say that the under-trunk or under-engine-lid locations just don't work well at all. You might see a 20-30F reduction but that isn't enough for hardcore use. I suppose a fan/duct lashup might help a little extra.

Without an external cooler, my -4 cars would shoot to 250-300F in less than 15 minutes of track driving. That is NOT good...

Bernie,

I added one on the Bumblebee, mounted on the bottom of the rear trunk. Unfortunately, I don't have pictures handy.

In the hot summer in Iowa, the cooler definately made a difference. The fan was veru good, but provided more help running around town. It provided less benefit on long stretches on the highway.

I didn't use HUGE lines, but I had some made at NAPA pretty inexpensively, from high pressure hydraulic hose with custom fittings.

I'm very happy with it, and it was a budget job that came out looking good.

-Rusty

my temp goes to the 3/4 mark on the guage if I could lower it to the middle I would be happy. The engine is tired and I am trying to keep it alive untill I can rebuild the 2.0L that I have. the new engine will hold the oil pressure better and probley run cooler than this worn out eng.

Bernie

Another point is that it is a very GOOD idea to get a new temp gauge & sender. The little VDO "Cockpit" series ones sold by HPH, Pelican etc. are pretty decent.

The 30 year old number-less stock center console gauges really leave you wondering. The ones I had on my cars moved enough where I could tell they were working, but who knows WTF actual temperature that was supposed to correspond to???

The only problem is that once you get a numbered temp gauge, you'll freak out the first few times you see how hot the -4 engines get in hard/summer driving I figure that's why the factory didn't include numbers in the first place

There's one up under the engine cover in my car. It's not terribly noticeable unless you're looking down at the car.

It stays cool ALL the time though. I drove it straight from Chicago to Saint Louis (5 hours), and it was over 80 degrees the whole time.

No problems at all )