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Roxylife wrote: - It removes the standard tempramental oil to water cooling unit. 2 - if siad unit fails it mixes the water with oil!
Totally what I thought dude, never struck me as a good design to have water and oil so close together......
Roxylife wrote:What makes you think you require a cooler? Oil temp problems?
I'm building a very fruity engine based on a MK3 tall block, which naturally came with the standard oil cooler. Plus I like spending money on the Scirocco!
Sound, looked into those but a little bit involved for me, I kinda want the engine to look factory too. Plus the car won't see a track day to be fair, its my baby as sad as it sounds!
I always let the engine a bit upon start up anyways mate, cold oil won't really bother me too much.
Did some 80s VW not have a factory external oil cooler fitted tho? Did they suffer the same temp issues that you mention dude?
Yes, the early (pre 83) GTI's had an external oil cooler, it sat to the right of the radiator.
I never experienced any oil temp issues with the cars I owned.
1984 MK2 Havanna brown Storm
1989 MK2 Alpine white Scala injection
2006 Audi A4 3.0TDI quattro (the beast)
For my next race car I'll be buying a Mocal laminova oil cooler.. The touring car boys use these with good results! And they look a bit more factory.. They plumb in to the radiator top hose and are super efficient! Basically the oil lines from your take off plate go through it much like a regular air to oil cooler.. We fitted one to a 1.8t Mk2 with a Gt28rs track car with perfect results!
Just outside Didcot, or Reading, either/or!.. Anything can be made to look factory with the right hardware! Matt black (classic) silicon hoses and plain fittings etc!