oil coolers
 

what oil coolers are the easiest to adapt to a custom civic turbo setup. I saw a starion oil cooler with lines for 40 bucks, should i go with that? Or buy a brand new one?

also i thought the oil return from the cooler should go to the turbo or the input from the turbo.
cooler turbo or cooler returned oil?


thanks!

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RX7s have fairly lagre oil coolers and theres about 387 of them at every junk yard.

Beau

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any generation to look for? also i think 1g dsms have a decent one?

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Would it be smart to just run one inline with the turbo intake or drain oil line?
I have a custom turbo on my eclipse, Most of the oil coolers that I have seen connect directly to the block.

Nick
97RS
Custom IHI Turbo Stage2

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i think before the turbo line would be ok just cause on hondas you tend to run more oil pressure than the turbo needs, but i might be wrong

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especially when cold...

Jeff

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make sure you get an oil cooler tho not a tranny cooler cause im pretty sure the oil can t take the pressure of the tranny cooler

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err

you can use a tranny cooler. i've got one i'm gunna use off my chevelle. it cooled a turbo hydrolic 400.

i'm gunna zip tie it to the radiator and have the oil return from the turbo go straight to the cooler then out the cooler to the oil pan.

zip ties work really good anyways, right now its zip tied to the radiator in my chevelle and nothings happend.

Johnny

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hmm ya on return it should be fine but i don think you can send high PSi thru a tranny cooler. Would that not be enough flow fo the gravity feed oil drain off turbo?

how do i tell if i have a trany or oil cooler? All i know is its new and small

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they are pretty much the same thing.

you should be just fine cooling the oil after it leaves the turbo. you would avoid a lot of hassle.

Johnny

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would the oil drain porperly from the turbo if that was the case. the oil is all woooped up and frothy, i think its meant to go straight into the pan.

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u could only cool it from the return if the oil cooler is below the turbo. cause its a gravity feed. why not just cool the entire system :P

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Its actually not very good to try to tap into the oil return at all, you want a straight shot directly from the turbo to the pan. Its gravity fed, and needs to have a smooth flow. If it gets backed up at all, the turbo can easily smoke.

It would be best to cool the oil before it reached the turbo.

Jeff

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I fed my first turbo this way. Used an oil cooler and ran a T on the return line to feed the turbo. I liked this because the turbo got cooler oil, and by using a T that had 2big & 1 small nipple allowed the turbo to receive less oil pressure than it would if I T'd off the pressure sensor.

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Looked it up. A better way to hook up an oil cooler is to get a Sandwich Adapter (#186):
http://www.perma-cool.com/Catalog/Cat_page28.html

The adapter screws into the hole for the oil filter and then the oil filter screws into the Adapter. There are inlet and outlet holes on the adapter. Just run these to the oil cooler.

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can you run the lines from the outlet the sandwich (where the oil filter is) to the inlet of oil cooler and out the oil cooler to inlet of turbo and then the outlet of the turbo to the inlet of the sandwich. do you think is possible or you got to tap in the oil pan.

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I thought of that 3 month's ago...don't think it would be a good idea...gravity is a bitch...

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ive gone through enough ---- with adapters and crap id just buy that sandwich adapter and run a cooler.

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how do it work isn't the adapter pressurize and will the pressure will push the oil threw the oil cooler and turbo and back up threw the adapter. any thoughts.

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I just thought of something really cool. If they made a slightly small oil cooler that could fit inside the box compartment where the old "intake resonator" use to sit, that would be great. I've cut out that little plastic piece on the front bumper so air comes in (this was for my custom cold air intake at the time). This would be my location of an oil cooler. I may consider doing this if I can find a smaller oil cooler (hey, it's better than none).