Shaped oil coolers??? Are these avaliable

[jagman]

Using laminova also has 2 other advantages , you can use an independent heat rejection ,ie its own water system ,which adds massively to cooling and it can be selected on/off on demand

Edited November 19, 2011 by jagman
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[hodge]

I can get curved rads and oil coolers made, but the cost is horrific,over 1K for the sort of thing you are talking about. I can get cores done that taper as well, again though, very pricey. If you could be persuaded to run a proper engine driven fan and a decent rad shroud, you could use a Laminova oil to water heat exchanger hidden away, and let the water cooling system reject the oil heat as well. Beautifiully made, and not that expensive for what you get, I use them on two of the race cars. You can combine two heat exchangers in one core, to have say the engine and transmission coolers in one neat unit. Neat, did I say neat? He'll love that

 

http://www.laminova.se/products/oil-coolers-combined/complete-oil-coolers-combined-ecd54/ecd54-271-combined

 

http://www.laminova.se/

 

 

I was looking at these only yesterday funny enough Chris, and quite liked the idea of them, I coul fit 1 in my bottom rad pipe. But then I was delving into oil cooler ducting and came across this.

 

http://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/p13579/OIL-COOLER-DUCT-FOR-19-ROW-COOLER/product_info.html

 

Am I right in thinking I can basically mount the cooler anywhere as long as the air intake duct is in direct path for air flow. So I could stick 1 tucked away inside the bumper somewhere and have a cold air feed attached to the duct which will keep the oil cool. There's a few people in the states running small pull fans attached to the rear of the oil cooler too for help dragging that cold air through.

 

What are your thoughts on this??

[Chris Wilson]

Those style of ducts are pretty inefficient, given a choice the laminova is better, BUT you will be putting a lot more loading on the water cooling system, and will need a proper engine driven fan and a really good (stock wide core like I fitted to JonnyG's?) rad.