Oil cooler/mounting kit

[Leeboo]

What oil cooler do people use on xe's in novas, is it worth getting a cav/astra one or going for an aftermarket one such as mocal. if so, what size?

edit - can it be bypassed?


thanks

[djbrowney]

this will do the perfect job

http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=135141

[Benn]

A std cav/astra one will do it fine. Only bigger ones are needed if its gonna spend all day on track.

[Pistol Pete]

I think most people use what comes standard with the engine. As Benn said, only really need to upgrade if tracking it hard. Even then, IMO, might be abit of overkill.

[Leeboo]

Thanks for the replies.

Can the oil cooler be bypassed? I seem to recall something about removing the sandwich plate at the oil filter and by-passing it using something from a c20ne?

I know people might say "if the original cav/astra had it, then it must be needed". But its extra work to source the oil cooler/pipes.

[Pistol Pete]

IIRC you can remove the sandwich plate part. Have a search, may have been covered before.

BUT, not all that hard to get hold of the pipes second hand.

[Leeboo]

Doh, search is my friend and all that.

Turns out the sandwich plate can be removed and bypassed by using a fitting from any smallblock:

http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthr...ch+plate+c20ne

I thought the c20ne fitting was needed but evidently not, happy days.

It seems this has been done plenty before.... so it shouldn't cause any problems running without a cooler?

[Benn]

Yeah its easy to remove it, i never use them. You need a thread bit that screws in to the filter and up in to the pump. Sure its found on 2lt 8v engines.

[Graeme]

I use a Cav Sri one on my hatch, it fitted behind the grill, and was a good fit, on my previous saloon, I removed the cooler, never notice a temperature difference

[Leeboo]

Yeah its easy to remove it, i never use them. You need a thread bit that screws in to the filter and up in to the pump. Sure its found on 2lt 8v engines.

Yeah I thought you had to get the fitting off 2l 8v, but that thread says you can get it off any smallblock? Only one way to find out I suppose.

Graeme - yeah done some searching there and it seems oil cooler is really only necessary for track use.