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do you guys actualy think a fanless oil cooler will cool the oil enough to where it won't be efficient? i don't know much bout dem der oil coolers but oil gets super hot in a boosted car and i don't think an oil cooler will cool the oil to where it's inefficient. unless the car is daily driven in Alaska :-* then again i maybe wrong.

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i am thining about connecting stock b16 oilcooler to some front mount water radiator with pump and reservoir. what do you think about it? will it work?

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if the price is right i'd buy one. they'd have to be atleast 3/4" thick x 7"height x 14" length.

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The oil will still reach a proper operating temp. The temp for proper operation is much lower than people make it out to be. It isn't like 200 degrees or anything. If nothing else it can't hurt the car.

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Its also misleading that the HF "oil cooler" is an oil cooler. Honda put it there to help WARM the oil faster during inital start-up, not to cooler the oil. Same goes for the ITR's "oil cooler", the DSM "oil cooler"... They are not oil coolers !!!

As much as I'd like to order up a custom-coach oil cooler ( as all his products are great, at a great price ), I'm looking more towards a junkyard oil cooler from a old turbo volvo and the $25 summit-racing filter adaptor... Summit sent me a $20 free gift card, so I got the adaptor for like $10 !!!

2 reason I haven't done it..
#1 the therostat is needed and adds cost, and it IS just one more thing that can fail
#2 I can't even get my oil return to stop leaking, let along the 5-7 connections that an oil cooler would require !! ( But I guess that's where customC would come in with his fittings and stuff ).

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so. i want to connect that "oil-cooler" to reservoir and front mount radiator with pump. hw yuo think will it work?

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I am going to install one this winter while my car is off the road. I am building a hood and intake for it to increase effieicency.

I am also going to take my turbo oil from the same lines to make thing easier. I'm sick of my delicate block adaptors and oillines.

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why is everyone saying you need a thermostat to use a oil cooler? I will have to say that's BULLSHIT! why would you need a thermostat? do you have a thermostat on your intercooler? I dont think so! oil cooler= intercooler for oil/liquid.

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I am still looking into all this so I dont have prices and specks yet. I can tell you a thermostat is not a necessity. Factory turbo cars dont use them. The Eclips, 3000 GT and SAAB 900 and 9000s all have oil coolers with no Tstat. The ISUZU NPR and NRR turbo Diesel box trucks dont use a Tstat either. I will offer it as an option for drag cars that want to warm up faster at the track but I dont see it for street use. I was also thinking about a external oil filter adapter oil cooler combo. You would get the block adapter, the frame rail mount oil filer adapter(for the BIG Fram F7 oil filter, more oil capacity and more filter) and all the oil lines and fittings in one package.

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that sounds like a good oil cooling set up.