Oil Cooler / Fuel Cooler
geo3@earthlink.net
geo3@earthlink.net
Fri, 8 Feb 2002 12:47:48 -0600
Rick Frey rfrey@iupui.edu wrote:
>It seems to me that properly cooled oil is a plus for any car.
Yes, but improperly cooled oil can be bad.
>Everyone with a performance car should put in an oil cooler. However, I
>suggest that the piping be valved (through manually thrown ball valves or
>whatever) to allow bypass of the cooler. For normal driving, shunt the oil
>around the cooler, for heavy stop and go traffic or track driving, switch
>the cooler in the oil circuit.
I was thinking in those terms If you could by-pass the cooler at will, it
could be good for a car that sees track use.
BTW, in stop and go traffic, the oil cooler is probably not necessary, and
even potentiall ineffective. The main use as I see it would be for heavy
track use, or *maybe* with a turbo street car seeing some hard use.
George