[s-cars] Oil Cooler options...

[Mark Turczyn]

At 10:10 PM -0400 4/15/05, Tony Curran wrote:
>So I'm in the engine compartment ripping out the air intake snorkel and note
>that the oil cooler intake shorkel is not attached to the oil cooler
>anymore. The integrity of the cooler itself looks OK but the attachment to
>the frame is corroding badly.
>
>I can probably work out a way to secure the air intake but are there any
>recommended "monster" oil cooler replacement solutions out there?
>
>Thanks
>
>Tony
>96 S6
>


Tony-

the best solution I found was to box in a 24 row Mocal cooler in the 
same location as the stock with just a bit more tilt.


To give you some history, I went through a number of different 
coolers- first I put two stock ones back to back with two simple 
fittings.  Next I machined up a plate to be able to use a Porsche 911 
cooler and install it in the stock location.  I vented the wheel 
liner and boxed all of this in.  I still did not get the max cooling 
I wanted for towing.

So I checked out other cooler solutions--I bought a few from junk 
yards to check out--an RX-7 turbo cooler which is a beautiful piece 
but way too long, a BMW chin oil cooler that was very compact, and a 
Merc turbo diesel oil cooler.

In the end I just installed the Mocal in the same location.  You buy 
the transition fittings from metric to AN through any Parker catalog.

-- 
Mark Turczyn