4 Port Oil Cooler Sandwich Plate?
I've been looking into oil cooler options for a while now, and couldn't find what I was looking. Does anyone know if someone makes a 4 port t-stat sandwich plate (2 AN fittings and 2 1 1/8npt)?.
EDIT: T-stat sandwich plate. Thank you. |
Look at cummins torque converter cooler. I think the fittings aren't what you are looking for but it is 4 port(as long as you mean 2 in and 2 out)
EDIT: I thought it said oil cooler. Not a sandwich plate. |
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Mocal and drill
Or mocal and use AN gauge adapters |
Run oil temp in AN fittings.
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Originally Posted by robertw
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Originally Posted by psyber_0ptix
(Post 1356255)
Mocal and drill
Or mocal and use AN gauge adapters |
Ordered the trackspeed kit. Wallet hurts bad.
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Trackspeed kit is cheaper than sum of the Setrab and Mocal parts. Even if you account for street prices being cheaper than MSRP.
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Originally Posted by afm
(Post 1356347)
Trackspeed kit is cheaper than sum of the Setrab and Mocal parts. Even if you account for street prices being cheaper than MSRP.
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Personal opinion, based on a sample-size of one.
For a street application, I'm unimpressed with sandwich-plate adapters with internal thermostats. They seem to pass a fair bit of oil through the cooler even when cold, with the result that warmup takes an extremely long time under normal driving, even with a turbocharged engine. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1356445)
Personal opinion, based on a sample-size of one.
For a street application, I'm unimpressed with sandwich-plate adapters with internal thermostats. They seem to pass a fair bit of oil through the cooler even when cold, with the result that warm up takes an extremely long time under normal driving, even with a turbocharged engine. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1356445)
Personal opinion, based on a sample-size of one.
For a street application, I'm unimpressed with sandwich-plate adapters with internal thermostats. They seem to pass a fair bit of oil through the cooler even when cold, with the result that warmup takes an extremely long time under normal driving, even with a turbocharged engine. And yes, I priced the cooler kits as low as I could. It's the magic of volume purchasing :) |
Originally Posted by Savington
And yes, I priced the cooler kits as low as I could. It's the magic of volume purchasing :)
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1356445)
Personal opinion, based on a sample-size of one.
For a street application, I'm unimpressed with sandwich-plate adapters with internal thermostats. They seem to pass a fair bit of oil through the cooler even when cold, with the result that warmup takes an extremely long time under normal driving, even with a turbocharged engine. Oil cooler shrouds and radiator shrouds for winter driving | LBCarCo | Little British Car Co Moss Miata also sells an oil cooler shroud. |
Originally Posted by sp33der
(Post 1356507)
As mentioned it's flowing some oil through the core for a reason. The solution is to cover / block it off in the colder months.
My comment was mostly about the need (or lack thereof) for external oil coolers on pure street cars which, at most, might see an occasional AutoX. When I was younger, and naive, I built my first turbo car. It was a 1.6, so no factory oil cooler. Didn't know much about oil and cooling, but figured that it was probably something I needed to do. Started with a Mocal plate and a small Earl's unit. Even in the summertime in SoCal, my oil wasn't up to temp at the end of my 5 miles commute to work. Plugged the thermostat in the fully open position, and installed an external thermostat. Same problem. Eventually ripped the whole mess out and installed an OEM 1.8 cooler from a junkyard car. This was the ticket- temps came up quickly in the morning, and never thought about getting too high even when I was pushing the car hard through the canyons on the weekend. Not relevant to track use, just a commentary for anyone who might be reading this thread and thinking "Well, since the racers all use oil coolers on their turbo cars, I should probably install one on mine." For such applications, that's a worse solution than doing nothing. |
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