Hi all,
Was reading a thread on the Vintage race mailing list and I'm interested if
anyone out there has considered fitting or has fitted a water/oil cooler
instead of the typical air/oil cooler. Some of the listed advantages were
quicker warm up time, cooler operation & one I can see, the ability to place
the cooler in a position out of the airflow, ie move it away from partially
blocking the radiator of a B, more of a problem on an A, already enough of a
problem getting air in there.
Part of the discussion was building one from a stock oil cooler by welding
an aluminium box around the stock cooler and adding input/exit pipes. Sounds
like a great idea, but I have a couple of reservations.
Water being recirculated via the cooling system runs at 160-200+F, obviously
this isn't cooler than the outside air, so how is the cooling improved? ie
the Air would be at worst 105F. Would it be better to set up a different
feed from an altogether seperate resevoir? Problem is the water would be
sitting and not circulating through the cooler. This is interesting to me as
I was intending on fitting a cooler to the A, here in Australia it gets very
hot, but in traffic I would doubt that the cooler would make a major
difference, so hence my interest in the water/oil cooler.
Apparently a lot of modern cars run these types of coolers such as the
Miata/MX5. Comments anyone? :)
Cheers,
Neil.
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