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Very Odd Gtr Oil Cooler

Kaido_RR

By Kaido_RR,
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Dude, that's sick! doubles as a strut brace by the looks of it! I wonder if it lacks strength because it has hollow cavities for oil cooling?

Imagine taking a tight corner, putting stress on the strut towers and then it cracks, pissing oil all over the top of your engine hahah

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yeah it's just an oil/water heat exchanger. to make the most of it you'd need a larger than standard radiator or a second smaller radiator to cool the coolant flowing through it. they just chose to make it look fancy and mount it on the strut brace. no way would you buy it for $1000.

for similar money PWR will make you a GTR radiator which is twin pass and has an oil cooler/heat exchanger built into it. used on may serious track cars. very effective in that they also help bring oil up to temp and then keep it stabilised at operating temp. so then you're getting a better radiator AND the oil cooler for the same money.

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yeah it's just an oil/water heat exchanger. to make the most of it you'd need a larger than standard radiator or a second smaller radiator to cool the coolant flowing through it. they just chose to make it look fancy and mount it on the strut brace. no way would you buy it for $1000.

for similar money PWR will make you a GTR radiator which is twin pass and has an oil cooler/heat exchanger built into it. used on may serious track cars. very effective in that they also help bring oil up to temp and then keep it stabilised at operating temp. so then you're getting a better radiator AND the oil cooler for the same money.

Spot on!! :P

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forgot to mention that it looks to me to be a laminova type core. they make special cores for turbo engine pipework and also make sealed oil/water heat exchangers/stabilisers. very interesting type of core and apparently quite efficient.

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yeah it's just an oil/water heat exchanger. to make the most of it you'd need a larger than standard radiator or a second smaller radiator to cool the coolant flowing through it. they just chose to make it look fancy and mount it on the strut brace. no way would you buy it for $1000.

for similar money PWR will make you a GTR radiator which is twin pass and has an oil cooler/heat exchanger built into it. used on may serious track cars. very effective in that they also help bring oil up to temp and then keep it stabilised at operating temp. so then you're getting a better radiator AND the oil cooler for the same money.

What diameter pipes do they use? I had thought of getting a filter relocating kit and running it through the heat exchanger in my auto radiator (have converted to manual). Then if I need a bigger radiator at that point I could add a proper oil cooler and thermostat.
Kaido_RR Grand Master

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Anyone have the yahoo link?

http://page21.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j94861066

i found it again, looks like it didn't sell at the price of 89,000yen so the started the auction again at a starting price of 1yen with no reserve.

pretty cheap atm, about the same cost as a strut brace might bid of it for some giggles

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