100 Radiator with an oil cooler???

[ScottyCBoy at aol.com]

Some of the 1991 Audi's also use the four speed automatic transmission, maybe they generate more heat that the three speed?

SCott



In a message dated Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:52:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, cobram at juno.com writes:

> 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.
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