anyone know where to buy an engine oil cooler?
09-22-2010, 11:46 AM
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anyone know where to buy an engine oil cooler? like the title says....anyone know where to buy one at? i've tried almost every wrecking/junk yard around my area.
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09-23-2010, 12:10 AM
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There are situations that these cars get used in (other than drag racing / street duty) where an oil cooler is beneficial.
While I fully agree there are better aftermarket units than the stock, that doesn't mean the stocker is ineffective.
If you run an aftermarket cooler make sure the actual cooler is designed for engine oil not transmission fluid.
09-23-2010, 02:28 AM
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Joe, so from 93-95 they were using the "KC4" type engine oil cooler correct? http://shbox.com/1/oil_cooler.jpg
09-23-2010, 10:18 AM
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http://www.summitracing.com/parts/BMM-70266/
09-23-2010, 03:01 PM
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Is there a reason you're sticking with this one? As I mentioned in my PM, this is the worse of the two offered on the LT1.
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Honestly, it's not a necessity to run the oil cooler. I'd swap to the early style or delete it in it's entirety.
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To give a different perspective, and the clarify, there were 2 different oil coolers used on f-bodies throughout the years...
1) used on 93-94 F-bodies, black in color, made out of steel, is a sandwich design, has the cooler lines horizontally mounted to the cooler. Internally it is a high-flow design, suitable for any weight oil. This design is much harder to plug up and has a greater surface area for the oil to make it through the cooler. Manufactured under OEM by Moroso for GM.
2) used on 95-97 F-bodies, bright raw aluminum, made out of cast aluminum with a 'radiator like' finned core, cooler lines mount vertically to the cooler. Internally it is a much more restrictive design and should only be used with 0-5 weight oil. This design is HIGHLY susceptable to clogging and there is no possible way to clean it once it does clog. I believe these may be OEM'd by SLP for GM, but don't quote me on that.
Now out of the 2 designs, IMHO, 1 is a keeper and 2 should be removed the minute you notice it on the car... Cooler #2 is much, much more likely to clog, is ever more likely to cause spun bearings and is a complete throw-away design with less than 1/4 the 'cooling area' the other design offers.
Cooler #1 is more like a oil temp 'stabilizer' than a honest to goodness cooler, as it warms the oil up quicker in winter and cools the oil under higher temps as much as is possible with a 'cooler' of it's size. Thus your oil will stay closer to coolent temps than is possible if you didn't have one. This design can also be cleaned succesfully with larger and more oil passages inside of it and has a much greater radiant surface area, even though it is made completely out of steel, with no aluminum, thus when they redesigned it for '95 they must have felt a smaller aluminum core was just as efficient.
1) used on 93-94 F-bodies, black in color, made out of steel, is a sandwich design, has the cooler lines horizontally mounted to the cooler. Internally it is a high-flow design, suitable for any weight oil. This design is much harder to plug up and has a greater surface area for the oil to make it through the cooler. Manufactured under OEM by Moroso for GM.
2) used on 95-97 F-bodies, bright raw aluminum, made out of cast aluminum with a 'radiator like' finned core, cooler lines mount vertically to the cooler. Internally it is a much more restrictive design and should only be used with 0-5 weight oil. This design is HIGHLY susceptable to clogging and there is no possible way to clean it once it does clog. I believe these may be OEM'd by SLP for GM, but don't quote me on that.
Now out of the 2 designs, IMHO, 1 is a keeper and 2 should be removed the minute you notice it on the car... Cooler #2 is much, much more likely to clog, is ever more likely to cause spun bearings and is a complete throw-away design with less than 1/4 the 'cooling area' the other design offers.
Cooler #1 is more like a oil temp 'stabilizer' than a honest to goodness cooler, as it warms the oil up quicker in winter and cools the oil under higher temps as much as is possible with a 'cooler' of it's size. Thus your oil will stay closer to coolent temps than is possible if you didn't have one. This design can also be cleaned succesfully with larger and more oil passages inside of it and has a much greater radiant surface area, even though it is made completely out of steel, with no aluminum, thus when they redesigned it for '95 they must have felt a smaller aluminum core was just as efficient.
09-23-2010, 09:02 PM
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lol i only wanted to stick to this one because i just wanted to bolt it right on, but since it's so hard to find i'm just going to o'reily's to pick up an oil cooler. which one do you guys think is best between the two:
1) http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/de...1365&ppt=C0331
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2)http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/de...1365&ppt=C0331
1) http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/de...1365&ppt=C0331
or
2)http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/de...1365&ppt=C0331
09-23-2010, 10:24 PM
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I would take it off and leave it off. I'm pretty sure GM never utilized the cooler on the LT1 Corvettes because they came from the factory with Mobil 1 oil. If you insist on having one of the two designs utilized on the LT1, it's always been my understanding that the model used on the 93's & 94's is better. There is also speculation that the primary benefit was bringing the oil up to temp faster, as opposed to actually cooling it off.