Oil Cooler

[Zed]

Can anyone reccommend any particular oil cooler and advise whether or not it is actually necessary. Any of you guys ( or gals ) fitted one of these yourself.

The one available from Miami rice sounds like a very reasonable price when you look at the mega buck prices of blitz or hks ones. What major difference is there likely to. How is the oil pressure affected?

Look forward to hearing your comments:cool:

[qaisar]

I would say go with the Miami Rice ones and yes they are worth it in the long run

[Alex]

Mocal coolers are hard to beat. But I don't know if they would have an off the shelf sanwich plate that would fit the Supra...

The Greddy one is tried and tested...might be more expensive than a Mocal though.

[Nic]

I had a very frightening experience with a brand new Greddy oil cooler, see this thread:

http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7550&perpage=15&highlight=greddy&pagenumber=1

If choosing an oil cooler I would go with CW's advise in the above thread

Quote by Chris Wilson
"Pressurised oil lines should always have proper screwed unions, I dislike circlip and O ring joints."

I now have an HKS oil cooler fitted which has threaded unions to connect the oil lines.

[heckler]

I have the Miami Rice/Mocal oil cooler and filter relocation kit... look the dogs nutz. Gonna fit it tommorw

http://www.internetwork.org.uk/oilkit.jpg

[Zed]

Thanks for the replies.

Bl@@dy hell Nic, that is a scary experience. Was everything sorted out ok in the end.

Heckler, you describe the miami one as Miami rice/Mocal, so is it a hybrid. I thought the Mocal ones were at least twice the price.

Anyway, I look forward to hearing how your install goes, will you be going for oil temp and pressure gauges as well. It definitely sounds like it will be worthwhile mod with summer just around the corner ( ie. 1 week of hot weather between the rain storms : )

[Soonto"HAS"soop]

Originally posted by Nic
I had a very frightening experience with a brand new Greddy oil cooler, see this thread:

http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7550&perpage=15&highlight=greddy&pagenumber=1

If choosing an oil cooler I would go with CW's advise in the above thread



I now have an HKS oil cooler fitted which has threaded unions to connect the oil lines.

Nic, quick question, why (if all your oil drained out) did youy oil warning light and general warning light not come on? Surely the oil fill light should of come on, and the general hazard light in the centre of the rev counter should of lit up?

Ben..

[Nic]

Ben, the warning lights didn't come on, it was dark so I would have noticed immediately. The garage said as soon as the pipe blew off, the oil would have pumped out very rapidly and the pressure would be lost instantly. The oil slick on the road was only about 50m and I was travelling at about 60mph so basically everything happened too quickly to know anything about it or to react.

[Soonto"HAS"soop]

OK, mate fair do's. Was very lucky that you hit nothing/no one anyway.

Ben..

[Zed]

so how did the oil cooler install cooler go, heckler?

Was it necessarry to remove the bumper or can it be installed by removing the undertray only?

[Gordon F]

Originally posted by Zed
Can anyone reccommend any particular oil cooler and advise whether or not it is actually necessary. Any of you guys ( or gals ) fitted one of these yourself.
Are there any of the modded cars on here hitting high oil temperatures?

[heckler]

Ok Zed, Done it...

Heres a few pics.

http://www.internetwork.org.uk/oilfill.JPG

And this one...

http://www.internetwork.org.uk/oilcool.JPG

Last one

http://www.internetwork.org.uk/oillocat.JPG

The main reason my bumper is off, cos i alos installed the FMIC at the same time, so seemed locical to do the oil cooler & filter relocation kit. - I know not all the hoses are conected up yet in the pics... but they are now!

I think if you were doing just the oil cooler, the bumper would need to come of - it would make it so much easier.

Well, it took me 9 hrs on my own to fit both oil cooler and FMIC.

[Zed]

Thanks for posting the pics heckler, looks like a fairly straight forward install.
I was hoping removing the bumper wouldn't be necessary, fitted my hks 's' type last summer along with a new rad and a/c condenser and not looking forward to removing the bumper again. Any chance of some pics from under the bonnet, in particular where the oil filter was originally.

Did you have to modify the oil cooler kit in any way or use any additional parts or was everything spot on.

Thanks again!!

[heckler]

No mods to the cooler kit at all, no extra parts required - everything you need is in the kit. Pics of the original oil filter location... hmmm... gimme a sec or so, i'll go and take some for ya.

[heckler]

OK Zed.. As promised...

Spot The Oil Filter....

http://www.internetwork.org.uk/spotthefilter.jpg

Some others for ya too. Bumper Back On

http://www.internetwork.org.uk/oilcool1.jpg

And... Nice Condensation In Inticator...

http://www.internetwork.org.uk/oilcool2.jpg

[Zed]

thanks heckler, much appreciated!!!!!!!:)