Alternative Tranny Cooler
06-05-2004, 01:01 AM
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Alternative Tranny Cooler I just thought I'd share an idea I had. I bought a B&M supercooler but after moving it around and turning it different ways I just didnt like the way it was going to mount on the front of my radiator. Either I didnt like where I would have to route the lines and/or I didnt like how close it come to touching the plastic shield in front of the radiator. Also from my experience I dont like mounting a cooler using the plastic zip-ties through my radiator (thin aluminum+hard plastic+vibration+time=hole). So my solution was a "frame rail" tranny cooler they come in 18" and 24" lengths and are a two pass(one line down/one line back) design so dims are 24" x 3" x 2" thick approx. I mounted the cooler on little brackets that mount to the car using two bolts for the air dam (no need to drill holes in the car) which positions the cooler just up inside the channel that air passes through to go through the radiator the 24" long cooler is almost the same width as the radiator so it looks almost factory and the cooler lines both come off the same end so you can route the lines around the side of the radiator. I'm picky and will spend forever trying to make things look/fit just right. Also before posting I wanted to make sure it would properly cool so I hooked up a temp gauge and in city driving the temps never got over 180 and same for at the track it actually stayed cooler at the track!! If anyone is interested in a pic I can e-mail one since I'm not sure how to post one. (Side note a 2 5/8" gauge fits perfect in the dash vent holes in a T/A). Also this type of cooler is only $30!!!!! I guess that makes me a picky cheap bastard LOL.
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The brand of cooler is Perma-Cool and the brackets I made. Brackets are just two 2" x 1/4" x 6" pieces of aluminum I had laying around. I just bent them up using a bench-vise.
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I bought the cooler from Summit Racing. Trans temps stay fairly cool, it will eventually warm up to 180 but never goes much over that even with repeated passes at the track, nighttime cruising temps stay 160 - 170 (I'm running a 3500 verter). The cooler came with enough hose but the brackets you will need to make.
06-13-2004, 07:15 PM
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I had thought using one of these when I had a S/C and mount it in a similar way. Nice mounting work.
It will be interesting to see your tranny temps in winter. The plate type coolers flow less below 160* so the tranny has a chance to warm up before the cooler kicks-in.
It will be interesting to see your tranny temps in winter. The plate type coolers flow less below 160* so the tranny has a chance to warm up before the cooler kicks-in.
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I used a 28,000 cooler and it cools really good. I havent been over 162 in stop and go traffic. Me and Juan cut out the air dam so part of it went through the dam. I will post pictures as soon as i get them.
