MarkC

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Hi All

My brother is selling his oil cooler kit its a 13 row one would this suit my car its a v4 type r? Do you remove the oem modine cooler or do you blank off the connections off it? does it matter what way you mount the cooler?


any help would be great :thumbright:

Mark

ronjeramy

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Don't think you need one unless your doing lots of trackdays and running big power.

MarkC

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Car will be approx 380-400 bhp when im finished the mods. My car will be used mainly for road use and the odd trackday. I am using 5w-40 fully synthetic for road use.

joz8968

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In that case, you almost certainly WON'T need one.

But the only way of knowing for sure, would be to fit an accurate oil temp gauge to monitor, log and average out the oil temps for all your driving scenarios. And make a decision then...

prodriverules

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To fit the cooler you fit a sandwich plate[preferably thermosatic]beneth the existing modine which then has 2 pipes leading to the cooler,it does drop the oil filter position by about 2" though so certain types of header designs won't allow the use of sandwich plate as the exhaust pipe's runs through that location on the off side.

Tidgy

its only needed when temps are an issue, mine were at high 200's, as long as thermostaicly controled then all good.

Saying you 'def dont need it' isn't true at all, its a case of seeing what temps your getting and going form there

Dutch Scooby lover

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Do you have gauges fitted, if so are they mounted in the block, or with a sandwiichplate between the modine and the oil filter.

If they are mounted in the block (or don't have any)just mount a thermostatically controlled sandwich plate between the modine and the filter, and run hoses from there to the cooler.If you do not have A/C you can hang the cooler behind the grill, if you have airco you can mount the cooler in front of the rad, you only need 2 angle brackets.

If you have gauges, and they are mounted with a sandwich plate, you would need to remount them, so they sit directly in the engine (or take a massive gamble, and run 2 sandwich plates).

MarkC

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I have gauges fitted and all sensors are fitted to the block. The highest reading i got was 95 degrees oil temp.

jura11

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Hi matey if you don't drive lot of trackdays,you will be fine with standard modine.I have fitted Setrab ProLine Competition Oil cooler,where are temp at traffic around 95c,hard driving never pass 90c and motorway driving 80-85c

MarkC

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Thanks for the help everyone

Dutch Scooby lover

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With those oil temperatures fitting one would not be neccesary at this time.
What power are you running now??, in other words how much HP are you removed from your 380/400 hp goal.
If you are at 350 or so now there won't be as much extra heat, if you are sub 300 now the extra power needed to get to your goal would create more heat, and I would look into a cooler now. (Would be silly to have access to a complete 2nd hand set now, and having to pay for new stuff in half a year)

MarkC

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All thats done to my car is turboback exhaust, panel filter and remap for 95 plus booster. never run it on a rolling road so i dont know what exact power it is.

Dutch Scooby lover

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With those mods you'll be pushing 280-290 tops, so to get to your ultimate gola another 100hp has to be produced.
With your current oil temperatures fitting one would be something I recommend.

Make sure the sandwich plate is thermostatically controlled, though.