Running Multiple Oil Sandwich Plates 'Piggyback'

[jeremy fisher]

Hi all,

I am thinking of fitting an oil cooler after seeing some rather high temps on track. I already have a sandwich plate for temp and pressure gauges. Would there be any reason to not add the take off sandwich plate for the cooler on top? So I would have two sandwich plates on top of each other. Obviously my oil filter will sit further out but I have plenty of room for that. I have looked for a sandwich plate with take off's for gauges but I want a thermostatic one and can't find any that tick all the boxes. Anyone have any experience of this? Reasons not to?

Thanks

Nick

[Iain]

No spare oil gallery blanks or threads in the oil pump to use? I have oil temp, pressure, light switch etc all running off various blanks on my XE

[Stuart]

If you want to fit that much stuff, I'd consider remote mounting the filter and then using sensor blocks to mount the sensors and keep one sandwich plate.

[jeremy fisher]

I'm not aware of any place on the pump I can use. Its an X16XEL, anyone know if there should be any? I'll have a look anyway.

Stuart, by sensor blocks I take it you mean an inline fitting with threaded holes for the sensors? Where can I find those?
I can get a sandwich plate with take off's to pipe to a cooler and holes for my sensors but no thermostat. I could use an inline thermostat instead but I was trying to keep it as simple as possible... hmmmm

[Benn]

Cant you buy a sandwitch plate with the ports in them? You get two ports (pressure and temp) then you wont have stuff stacking up and up...

[jeremy fisher]

I currently have a sandwich plate for my sensors but want to add a cooler and can't get a sandwich plate with ports for sensors and for pipes to cooler and a thermostat. Stacking the plates seemed like the cheapest and easiest option. I just wasn't sure if it was a good idea, though couldn't really see why it would cause any problems.

[Iain]

I can't see why it would have any adverse effects stacking them and one having the thermostat, just need to find a bolt long enough to go through two of them I guess.

[GDN16v]

Pressure gauge could read of the original sensor hole and temp could be taken off a sensor mounted in the sump - freeing up the 2 in the sandwich plate.

[Benn]

I currently have a sandwich plate for my sensors but want to add a cooler and can't get a sandwich plate with ports for sensors and for pipes to cooler and a thermostat. Stacking the plates seemed like the cheapest and easiest option. I just wasn't sure if it was a good idea, though couldn't really see why it would cause any problems.

I've seen them before i'm sure.

Infact the first one that came up on ebay....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Oil-Cooler...item5d4eb39724

[Iain]

Doesn't have a thermostat built in like an OE sandwich plate Benn....