Thinking about an oil cooler.

[frijoles-and-beans]

I was looking over the oil cooler adapter tutorial by Mr. Nessism archived in BassCliff’s website and the thread on the popular technical info in technical forums third page, first to the top, dated 04-08-2008.

Now, the concept of the oil cooler is broken down very thoroughly and I can fully appreciate it, but one point keeps eluding me...

Well, before that I must say that I love the idea and have been researching different cooler models on the JC Whitney website www.jcwhitney.com (when I had a V-Dub, JC Whitney was my bible-69’, beep-beep!). You can even buy a thermostat switch to go with certain models. This seems like something that I would be willing to shell out the cash for.

What I understand is that the oil pump would be providing the pressure to get the oil to the cooler (so the cooler would have to be fairly level to the pump itself-according to me in my little research I have been conducting). So if the pressure is provided (via the standard engine oil pump) to the inlet, isn’t it also providing the equal amount of pressure to the outlet of the cooler thereby keeping the oil at a stand-still in the cooler itself?

It brings me to the conclusion that you would need a separate aftermarket pump running to the inlet of the cooler (I looked, and there are such things) to run it correctly. Am I right? Someone please tell me what’s up and what’s down, I am kinda confused-maybe even by my own research.

[Nessism]

In the tutorial you can see a little brass piece that fits down into the oil feed port that routes oil into the cooler, then the cool oil comes back and dumps back into the oil distribution cavity. A thermostat is a good idea but it complicates the plumbing and adds cost so most people skip it. This link shows what looks like a reasonable thermostat if you want to try one... http://www.batinc.net/thermos.htm

[frijoles-and-beans]

Nessism,

Thanks, that is just what I needed to hear to help clarify it for me.