Oil Cooler And Cold Winter Weather

[CeJay]

Ok I have an aftermarket oil cooler and I live in the sunny winter wonderland of canberra. So I'm wondering, will my oil cooler adversely affect my car on startup, when it's a nice warm zero centigrade outside, and if so is there anything I can do to improve it? Ie block the oil cooler during winter?

[gun32gtr]

im bought that has a thermostat and im in bathurst similar weather...think it should be ok 4 me well i hope...does yours have thermostat

[Beer Baron]

yeah you can get a little sheet of perspex, or alluminium to block all or part of the core. but if it's a good kit it will have a thermostat so the oil wont be flowing through the core unless the oil temp is above 80degrees.

[CeJay]

Don't know much about it, I think it's a hks oil cooler, which is in turn hooked up to a grex oil filter relocator kit. Where would the thermostat be? Roughly in that area?

thx for the tips btw.

[Beer Baron]

if there are 4 lines going to the filter relocator then it has a thermostat inside it. if there are just 2 lines (one in, one out) of the filter reloactor and no other obvious external oil-stat then it doesn't have one

[GTR32GUS]

If it is a HKS cooler the thermostat is a gold looking bolt on the sandwich plate

[CeJay]

I do have 4 lines coming out of the Grex kit which is good, and from memory I have seen some kind of gold looking bolt in that area. thx for the help btw.

[Beer Baron]

well if there are 4 lines coming out of the remote filter mount you have a thermo-stat built in. so no need to worry. the gold bolt is just a blanking plate. you can remove it and run a sensor there. it's not the thermo stat.

[GTR32GUS]

well if there are 4 lines coming out of the remote filter mount you have a thermo-stat built in. so no need to worry. the gold bolt is just a blanking plate. you can remove it and run a sensor there. it's not the thermo stat.

the type s HKS one have got the thermostat inside that gold bolt thing , i know this from when i put mine on