well after owning my car for exactly 12 months and never driving it as it had a knocking bottom end when i bought it i have finally rebuilt it and got it in plus a few goodies for good measure

 

Looking good but I would say mounting the oil cooler right above the turbo kind of defeats the object of it's purpose with all the heat soak it will get?

 

turbo now has heat shield/jacket on it and exhaust is heat wrapped i have removed the under tray from under the big scoop so the air has a clearer run at it now. not really anywhere else i could mount it either as have fmic and bigger alloy radiator

 

+1...

 

Looking good chap, Samco inlet pipe and zero sports hard pipe would finish it off a treat.

Also I'm not sure I'd of mounted the cooler there, is it really needed ? On a track car I can understand it but not really nessasary on a fast road car.

 

doesnt air through the scoop cool it? like the original tmic

 

Removed air con on my 2.5 & installed along side front mount
Your oil temp will def run higher installed on top

 

No reason you shouldn't mount an oil cooler there, plenty of airflow on the move assuming you have an STI 8 style scoop. You could help matters further by using the same method I have seen some apply on topmount intercoolers.
Purchase yourself one of these and fit it to the bottom of the oil cooler to draw air through it even when stationary.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/fractal-desi...ase-fan-622801

Trigger it through the fan relay and it will activate itself when necessary.
They have them in a fair few sizes, so if the one I picked doesn't fit, I'm sure you'll find one that will.

 

cery nice, but you are missing a clip of the rad hose to header tank hose as well. you wouldnt want that popping off.

 

Looks good Zippy, what rad is that?

 

yes matey this is why i put it there

 

its a toyosports ally version mate 40% more cooling capacity and efficiency it was £120

 

i have uprated headers on the engine which makes it difficult to get to the oil filter this kit relocates the filter as well as looking good and allows extra oil capacity