stoneysport

hello people,

I recently blew a hole through my piston on my 95 wrx,

Have got a replacment block with heads all in ,

was fitting it up today with the manifolds etc and noticed that it has no oil cooler ???

where as my 95 has ?

There is a blank over where the feed into the block goes ?

Also the cam pullys are plastic were as my 95 ones were metal ?


Please help , will i need to fit the oil cooler ?

Thanks Lee

stoneysport

Any one ?? im really stuck here ?

p1mark

They dont have a proper oil cooler as such (i.e an air to oil cooler) but have a water to oil cooler known as a modine (water flows around the modine at the base of the oil filter.

I am pretty certain all Impreza turbo's have this, but i have seen blocks from legacys that do not have it. Maybe the sport imprezas don't either. The water pumps are also missing a take off to go across to the oil filter on these engines.

What is your new block from?

later STI classics certainly have 3 plastic pulleys and the top right one is metal.

stoneysport

Thanks for the info P1mark , it is the modene thing at top of filter , i fitted it today along with water pump as exsisting one had no feed out of it for the modene

Thanks Again Lee

Tidgy

mine has always run hot, so had a proper oil cooler fitted behind the bumper last week, sorted the oil temps right out