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03-18-2012, 09:08 AM
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What sensors are you talking about? I will probably not be attaching any sensors to my sandwich plate. I will have "2" sandwich plates total. The OEM oil cooler one and then my glowshift one.
It is good to know you are also running the cooler there and having no cooling issues.
The 90-degree M18x1.5 -10AN fitting was the one fitting that my local hydraulic shop did not have actually. I asked about it first. They had ones to go to -8AN, but no -10AN.
Well the stock rx-7 oil cooler has 2 tabs welded on one side. Since I can not weld I decided to use those if at all possible. If I was to flip the oil cooler around the fittings would either end up on the drive side of the car and I would need even longer lines, or the tabs I am using to bolt to would be facing outwards instead of inwards and would be useless.
Also the other end of the hoses do not have fittings on them yet. I have yet to purchase those. I knew I would would need the 90-degree fittings to come off the sandwich plate. So I had those ends installed. I figured once I had to oil cooler mounted for good I could figure out which fittings I needed and the exact length of the lines.
TSB copied me on the oil cooler location. The black car runs ~240*F oil temps in 100*F weather at full boogie.
FYI, a 90* M18x1.5 -10AN hose end does exist. It's unreasonably expensive (~$60 shipped) but it only protrudes up by ~1" or so. If you mount the cooler a hair lower you can just use a 90* fitting, but NB guys who want to run the same cooler will be required to use the baller fitting.
FYI, a 90* M18x1.5 -10AN hose end does exist. It's unreasonably expensive (~$60 shipped) but it only protrudes up by ~1" or so. If you mount the cooler a hair lower you can just use a 90* fitting, but NB guys who want to run the same cooler will be required to use the baller fitting.
The 90-degree M18x1.5 -10AN fitting was the one fitting that my local hydraulic shop did not have actually. I asked about it first. They had ones to go to -8AN, but no -10AN.
Also the other end of the hoses do not have fittings on them yet. I have yet to purchase those. I knew I would would need the 90-degree fittings to come off the sandwich plate. So I had those ends installed. I figured once I had to oil cooler mounted for good I could figure out which fittings I needed and the exact length of the lines.
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03-18-2012, 08:23 PM
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Sandwich plate installed.
Lines attached to the sandwich plate.
Lines currently run through the swaybar mounting bracket. Will this be safe? You guys have till noon tomorrow to tell me why I this possibly be bad.
How the lines look from inside.
Lines attached to the sandwich plate.
Lines currently run through the swaybar mounting bracket. Will this be safe? You guys have till noon tomorrow to tell me why I this possibly be bad.
How the lines look from inside.
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03-18-2012, 08:34 PM
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Bad because they will saw through the bracket?
If you put some rubber on em though you will be fine.
Why take off intake for install? I guess you don't want to go under car.
Earlier, I was asking if you had a sandiwch plate for oil pressure and temp. I guess you have those somewhere else.
If you put some rubber on em though you will be fine.
Why take off intake for install? I guess you don't want to go under car.
Earlier, I was asking if you had a sandiwch plate for oil pressure and temp. I guess you have those somewhere else.
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03-18-2012, 09:12 PM
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Bad because they will saw through the bracket?
If you put some rubber on em though you will be fine.
Why take off intake for install? I guess you don't want to go under car.
Earlier, I was asking if you had a sandiwch plate for oil pressure and temp. I guess you have those somewhere else.
If you put some rubber on em though you will be fine.
Why take off intake for install? I guess you don't want to go under car.
Earlier, I was asking if you had a sandiwch plate for oil pressure and temp. I guess you have those somewhere else.
It was easier to do from above and takes me less then 10 minutes to get off my intake manifold. I am also going to be routing spark and injector wires below it eventually so I needed it to come off for that.
I pick up oil pressure from the stock location on the block. I have an oil temp sensor in my oil pan. The sandwich plate actually has 2 spots for things to screw in for either temp or pressure.
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03-19-2012, 08:39 AM
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FM's oil cooler & oil filter relocation kits use #8AN hose/fittings. I am not saying I would/will, but "because FM does" maybe you can too and get things more tighty.
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03-19-2012, 08:49 AM
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Tonight I am going to try fitting the undertray on with the lines routed how I have them, and also try routing them how curly has his lines to see which way I like better. Then I guess tomorrow I will get the lines cut and the ends put on.
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03-19-2012, 09:12 AM
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Here's my glory:
It's ducted on the sides and uses the same chamber as the radiator and FMIC.
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03-19-2012, 09:24 AM
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I don't live in Texas, I just need it to work reasonably well and keep the temps in check, not rocky mountain cold. Can't comment on temps, that's one of the next things I wanna do. Street vs. track, ducting vs. none. It's in a weird place. How to duct it is not obvious to me.
Why don't you think it's efficient? Where it is or the actual oil cooler? It was the cheapest one available, but miles above the eBay unit that sat leaking previously in the same spot. It allows as much air through it as a plate of steel would.
Why don't you think it's efficient? Where it is or the actual oil cooler? It was the cheapest one available, but miles above the eBay unit that sat leaking previously in the same spot. It allows as much air through it as a plate of steel would.
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03-19-2012, 09:49 AM
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I had the same cooler previously, ducted, under the car, and still saw 280*f oil temps. then I borrowed one from a friend that I currently have at half that size, in the same duct, blocked-off the larger hole where I mounted it, and suddenly it was 230*f. I then moved it because I don't like putting oil coolers in a "rock scooper" under the car.
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