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I used a Mocal cooler on Tweak, it's a 16 row and my oil temps stay at about 180-200 degrees on the track, no matter how hard I push the car. I used a thermostatic sandwich plate designed for a miata and I ran my lines between the cylinder head and inner timing cover, back behind the timing belt.
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If you only need a little bit of cooling the auto radiators and most aftermarket radiators have a built in oil cooler at the bottom. It's either an oil cooler or a transmission fluid cooler, but either way it should work. These radiators are getting to the end of their lives +/- 20 years and you could just knock two birds out with one stone.
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This isnt a bad idea,you could run the adapter plate with thermostat sandwich plate to the tranny cooler. I have atx radiators in my Aspires and they are much larger than the MTX ones. Great idea IMO especially for southern members,I lived in Waco,TX for 6 years so I can appreciate hot fluids.Originally posted by TheNewAmericanSpirit View PostLast edited by nitrofarm; 09-02-2013, 07:02 PM.Some people like to read fiction,I prefer to read repair manuals. Weird I know-
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I have auto rad in manual setup
I still don't want oil mixing with radiator. Separate cooler. I just need the block adapter.
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If you do air only get a sanwich with thermostat. If you want coolant heating you can go cheap on it and still benefit. One other thing is to do it up like a sand toy and remote mount a ford v8 style filter that holds 3/4q extra oil.1993 GL 5 speed
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Most oil cooler kits Come with 2 plate pieces plate with an out and in that goes where the OEM filter goes...then you branch off that with some hose leading to your oil filter, then off that in a loop to the cooler. Up on a stock b3 equipped firewall especially with no ac there is room for days for anything you want. You could even remote mount the filter towards the front close to the vam so you'd not even make a mess changing it.1993 GL 5 speed
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So what you lads are saying is " buy a sandwich adapter, get good braided oil hoses? And 12/24 row cooler"? I own a wb festy with a pretty much stock motor and I'm looking to add parts that will extened the life of my b3 as it only has around the 120,000km mark. Any more info on this subject would be awesome cheers!Comment
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I'll hose clamp stuff. I'm not scared. Barbs and clamps work OK on 200 psi air. Good gas resistance hose shouldn't have an issue.Originally posted by Solo_bud31 View Post
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there's an oil cooler adapter (sandwich style) that was on the 323 1.6 turbo. it's still available from mazda but like $110!Comment
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most stuff for honda and subarus will work unless its the whole oem piece that is a irregular chunk of aluminum that looks like kind of part of the oil pan (also DSM). stay away from those obviously. something with a simple bracket or just spins onto engine and hangs off using the oil filter thread is going to work.1993 GL 5 speed
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