hallass

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i've been looking into tranny coolers because i plan on adding a higher stall soon, and i'm seeing the heat sink tranny coolers here and there. they're the long aluminume ones with fins, kinda like the fins on an amp to dissipate heat. supposedly they work more efficient than the regular ones, don't need as much airflow to work as well, and look to be a lot easier to find a place to mount. has anyone tried one or know of anyone that has? i'm thinking about picking up 1 or 2 of them and giving them a try unless anyone has any horror stories.

FireSilverLullaby

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I was wondering the same thing, let me know the results when your done.

TUCKZ28SS

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I have a TCI streetfighter 3000 rpm stall converter, and a transgo shift kit. I put in a tranny cooler right underneath the inner nose on the air dam. Either this is not a good place or I have a bad trans temp gauge, but after about a half hour of driving my gauge reads around 200, that's pretty hot right? After about an hour it climbs to 210, that's when i head home scared that i'm going to fry my tranny. That is my experience, anyone with any advice I would appreciate it.

hallass

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yeah, where it sounds like you have it may not be letting enough air get to it to work like it should. the traditional style coolers need direct airflow to work right, and some of the higher dollar ones actually come with fans attached right to them for that reason. that's why i was debating one of these heat sink coolers. they're smaller and they don't require as much airflow to work well, which would open up more places to mount them.

CAT3

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I have been thinking about running one (or more) of these finned coolers. I was planning on putting one in the line going to the B&M Cooler and one on the down the length of the tunnel, or across the front but in the path of airflow. I do like the older style single pass through design as it seems like the new dual pass will warm the cooler fluid on its way back to warm back up...puzzling.

TUCKZ28SS

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So where would be a good location for my cooler?

allthrottle&nobottle

They work very well...............on my 97' C5






Got both a B&M super cooler & Moroso Automatic Transmission Oil Cooler/in line Filter.
http://www.martelbrothers.com/catalo...r-p-12613.html

...........my temps never see 180+ on the road except........after I blew 3rd & OD out I drove 58 miles at 4000 rpms home..........never got above 225 in 80 degree heat, near the same when road racing in a 20 minute session

Works like a champ on road courses, Max temps…….235 trans, 270 oil and 203 coolant in 80 deg heat.
Only time I got a high trans temp warning........hot lapping 7 straight times in the 1/4 in 97 degree 100 % humidity. I got every bell/chime/whistle one can get on a C5 Still ran an 11.31 @120+

BlackHawk T/A

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Where would be the best place to stick one of these on an F-Body?

SteveC

I have my B&M 24K cooler mounted "dope" style behind the passenger side turn signal, next to the air dam. There is an open space for the air to go through the cooler, it is mounted vertically, with the hoses going through the plastic air dam itself. It works very well.

SteveC

FullBoreTA

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My 29,200 gvw is in the exact same place and gets direct airflow, as well. On the hottest days, it still climbs to about 205-210*, so, I'm going to go with the oil cooler bypass. Several folks who have done it are saying it brings the temps down about 10-25 degrees. If true, that's my ideal temp range.

FullBoreTA

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Bought barbed fittings and used the ones that worked, which was the brass 1/4" male end screwed into the brass 5/16" female end.

I coupled the lines together to do the bypass ... only problem is it made my tranny temps run 15* hotter in town. Sure didn't cool it down like a lot of people said it would.

I'm re-doing it to pass back through the radiator's internal oil cooler, the way it was. Looks like I'll have to put it back the way it was.

Ragtop 99

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19k or so B&M PLATE type supercooler is the way to go. The plate type coolers allow the tranny to warm up faster in winter and are very efficent at rejecting heat once the tranny is up to temp.

Putting multiple coolers in line just isn't needed if you get a good cooler and mountg it properly the first time. A good tranny pan is a better option if you need more cooling than a B&M 24k cooler.

staringback05

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anybody got any pics of one installed on a fbody?

00'WS6Rocket

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I like that inline tranny fluid cooler, but why would it not be recommended for street use?

ls1wfo

the b&m super cooler is the best so far, just remember to double clamp all the lines.

SteveC

[QUOTE=FullBoreTA]I coupled the lines together to do the bypass ... only problem is it made my tranny temps run 15* hotter in town. Sure didn't cool it down like a lot of people said it would. QUOTE]

I live in a warm climate (Southern California), and coupled my 24K pan with a B&M 3 Qt. deeper aluminum pan, I have a very accurate Cyburdine digital gauge, and my freeway temperatures on a hot day do not go over 138F, in town the temps will fluctuate between 150F-172F.

SteveC

RevGTO

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I used this set-up: https://ls1tech.com/forums/automatic-transmission/179082-alternative-tranny-cooler.html. It's placed right in the center of the airflow and doesn't butt up against a hot condenser the way the typical plate set-up does.

FullBoreTA

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After the internal radiator cooler bypass ran my temps up 15* yesterday, I ran the fluid back through the radiator cooler and the temps came back down, however, I'm now back at the same place I was.

Anybody running two coolers care to share how much the second cooler dropped your temps? With a B&M 29,200 gvw cooler, I'm seeing 160-190* with the TC locked up. In town on the hottest 90+ degree days, I hitting 205-210* around town ... a little more than I'm comfortable with.

MetallicBluews6

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Where do most of you have your Trans Temp sensor hooked up at? Please help?