100 Radiator with an oil cooler???

[Beatty, Robert]

hmmmm... well as this car is going to be the wifes and I wont be driving it
all that much once mines up and running, I was considering using it as is
and just fabricating oil lines to fit...  any drawbacks to this?

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: cobram at juno.com [mailto:cobram at juno.com]

Kind of.  The oil transmission cooler on the 1991 radiator is unique to
the 2.3 with automatic.  It's takes up the bottom 25% of the radiator.
It's a hefty design, and can be separated from the radiator and mounted
somewhere else as an oil cooler.  It has big fittings on it for high
flow.

It looks like Audi may have figured that their autoboxes were blowing
prematurely from lack of cooling, thus the exaggerated cooler.  The area
dedicated to water cooling on this particular radiator looks smaller than
on a regular radiator.  Remote mounting of this cooler with the correct
radiator for the application would probably produce the best results.

BCNU,
Cobram at Juno.Com
http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/index.html


On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:04:14 -0500 (EST) Andrew Duane USG
<duane at hunch.zk3.dec.com> writes:
> Hairy green toads from Mars made Beatty, Robert say:
>
> > The 100 Radiator I got yesturday also has an oil cooler built into
> it.  I'm
> > assuming this was for the tranny, as I didnt pay attention to what
> I was
> > disconnecting it from, however it certainly looked like motor oil
> pouring
> > out when I disconnected it.  Anyone have any takes on this?
>
> Despite what Bentley claimed, some/all 100's had oil coolers too.
> Mine did (an '89 100Q). It seemed to be the same as the cooler
> shown for the 200's of the same vintage.