Well, I finally have a way to cool the oil in my engine, unlike stock DC2R?s my engine did not even have a coolant to oil heat-exchanger?
Normal suburban road oil temps were around 105-110?C after 20 mins or 60km/h driving? on the freeway, temps went straight to 115?C and depending on ambient, went to 120?C and touched 125?C after prolonged driving at over 110km/h? (meaning I was often relegated to sitting on 100km/h watching other cars flying past me?
On the track, after only 3-5 hard laps, the oil would hit the limit of my dial 280?F and go slightly over this marker? this equates to around 140?C of oil temperature.
So you can see why I was denied any hard core driving until I sorted this problem out, other wise I was risking blowing another engine due to oil issues (and is probably the reason I blew up my old B18C engine).
So, where is my $100 second hand wrecker oil cooler install? Not here. It certainly was not do-able in a reliable and long lasting sense, so it was not worth the cash saved.
So I went with an eBay ?oil cooler kit? and just for fun, I got the oil filter relocation version for a few extra $$$ (actually ? it is not really for fun, as I have wrapped my headers and if I change the oil filter, oil invariably makes it way onto the headers and soaks into the exhaust wrap, so a relocation made much sense).
So here it is:
The core is a 19 row item, with very simple core pleats/fins (I note that expensive brand cores have perforations on the fins, eg Earls, Scheck). It has -10 JIC fittings, two CNC machined alloy take-off plates 4 aluminium JIC-BSP adaptors, 3 lengths of braided rubber hose and the various adaptors for various filter threads?
After test fitting, the only logical way I could install it was if I bought two extra right angle joiners, and would have got cheaper steel items, but had to get Speedflow aluminium items as it was Saturday.
Here is the ?schematic? of the layout:
Here is a close up of the fittings etc:
To fit the core, I used right angel aluminium and eight M5 bolts, all with spring washers and the four chassis nuts were nylock items. You will note a small piece of aluminium was required to be fitted on bottom right corner to protect the rear of the core from part of the A/C condenser.
See here:
Normal suburban road oil temps were around 105-110?C after 20 mins or 60km/h driving? on the freeway, temps went straight to 115?C and depending on ambient, went to 120?C and touched 125?C after prolonged driving at over 110km/h? (meaning I was often relegated to sitting on 100km/h watching other cars flying past me?
On the track, after only 3-5 hard laps, the oil would hit the limit of my dial 280?F and go slightly over this marker? this equates to around 140?C of oil temperature.
So you can see why I was denied any hard core driving until I sorted this problem out, other wise I was risking blowing another engine due to oil issues (and is probably the reason I blew up my old B18C engine).
So, where is my $100 second hand wrecker oil cooler install? Not here. It certainly was not do-able in a reliable and long lasting sense, so it was not worth the cash saved.
So I went with an eBay ?oil cooler kit? and just for fun, I got the oil filter relocation version for a few extra $$$ (actually ? it is not really for fun, as I have wrapped my headers and if I change the oil filter, oil invariably makes it way onto the headers and soaks into the exhaust wrap, so a relocation made much sense).
So here it is:
The core is a 19 row item, with very simple core pleats/fins (I note that expensive brand cores have perforations on the fins, eg Earls, Scheck). It has -10 JIC fittings, two CNC machined alloy take-off plates 4 aluminium JIC-BSP adaptors, 3 lengths of braided rubber hose and the various adaptors for various filter threads?
After test fitting, the only logical way I could install it was if I bought two extra right angle joiners, and would have got cheaper steel items, but had to get Speedflow aluminium items as it was Saturday.
Here is the ?schematic? of the layout:
Here is a close up of the fittings etc:
To fit the core, I used right angel aluminium and eight M5 bolts, all with spring washers and the four chassis nuts were nylock items. You will note a small piece of aluminium was required to be fitted on bottom right corner to protect the rear of the core from part of the A/C condenser.
See here:
nice choice of words lol
picked mine up yesterday.
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