Oil cooler upgrade for NA cars

Burl Vibert blur at sympatico.ca
Mon Feb 26 16:19:46 EST 2001


Brendan/Coolian wrote:
> 
> > I was on ebay and saw this for sale, it is the whole oil
> > cooler with housing
> > off a turbo car, this would be a great upgrade for the NA
> > cars, bidding is
> > starting at $25.  NO affiliations...
> 
> What makes this a "great upgrade"?
> Don't the cars that need it, already have it? (not my argument,
> but it sounded right)
> My oil, if the gauge is to be believed, never gets above 130,
> and that was tailing Huw at 110mph for 30 minutes. That reading
> is barely halfway up the gauge.
> 


Well, 130C (266f) is too high for most oils, hope you're using
synthetic at those temps. 

Maybe you need an oil cooler;-)

Burl Vibert
1987 5kcstq
Kingston, Ontario



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