Very Odd Gtr Oil Cooler

[Kaido_RR]

came across this R32 GTR oil cooler on yahoo lol

Never seen anything like it before, and wonder how it works

[bubba]

Looks like you run water through it..

[The Dan]

Yeah it's a heat exchanger

Nissan has one factory fitted to the Skyline. Dunno whether it would work as well as an Air cooled one but I guess every bit helps

[bubba]

Would probably work well with its' own radiator, bit safer than hanging an oil cooler in the wheel arch.

[StealthX]

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

[Count Grantleyish]

How much is it?

It's apparently very rare piece of gear...

[Kaido_RR]

How much is it?

It's apparently very rare piece of gear...

say it was 200,000yen brand new, selling for 80,000yen

[Beer Baron]

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.

[The Dan]

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!!

[lachlanw]

"cam across this on yahoo"

yeah i see your dilema . def should be on ebay.

[Beer Baron]

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.

[Owgasm]

Anyone have the yahoo link?

[KiwiRS4T]

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.

[Beer Baron]

it can use any fittings you want. just tell them what size ports you want for the oil cooler. most would be using -10 or -12 fittings.

[T04GTR]

looks just like the garage saurus one...

[Kaido_RR]

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

[Chi100188]

i think i saw this same thing in a HPI mag on a garage saurus R33 GTR