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by Iceworx » 22 Jan 2012, 19:21
Morning all
Has anyone here fitted their own oil cooler? Not necessarily one of the brickwerks kit ones.
If you have, what size oil cooler are you running?
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by Ian Hulley » 22 Jan 2012, 19:55
Are you talking d****l Chris ? It may help to specify ?
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by Iceworx » 22 Jan 2012, 20:10
Ahh yes, Apologies. I am talking of the diseasal flavour engine.
The AAZ conversion starts this week, hence why i'm considering the cooler
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by Iceworx » 25 Jan 2012, 22:53
Thanks Chap, I was more wondering what size oil coolers everyone else has upfront?
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by v-lux » 27 Jan 2012, 13:18
Vauxhall frontera sport oil cooler rad is a very good fit in the upper grille. Got mine for a tenner at the scrap yard.
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by VWGeoff » 29 Jan 2012, 12:56
Does anyone know what bore pipe to use to make my own kit, and what adapters to fit to oil cooler 1/2"? Brickwerks say they use big bore, question is what is it. As I don`t like the idea of pushfit pipe on it. Thanks for any advice Geoff
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by v-lux » 29 Jan 2012, 14:08
I used 1/2 inch on mine, went to a local hydraulics place and they cut the lengths and swayged the ends on for me.
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by lloydy » 29 Jan 2012, 14:11
i got a 25 row setrab oil cooler, from the above mentioned think auto, and i used 5/8" pipe with a thermostatic take off plate
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by VWGeoff » 29 Jan 2012, 16:06
v-lux wrote: I used 1/2 inch on mine, went to a local hydraulics place and they cut the lengths and swayged the ends on for me.
Thanks for that, next question is what size bore of pipe? Been to pirtecs this week, and thats what they asked.
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by VWGeoff » 29 Jan 2012, 16:11
lloydy wrote: i got a 25 row setrab oil cooler, from the above mentioned think auto, and i used 5/8" pipe with a thermostatic take off plate
lloyd
Thanks lloydy I`ll use setrab too, they look good. Are they? Geoff
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by VWGeoff » 29 Jan 2012, 16:13
lloydy wrote: i got a 25 row setrab oil cooler, from the above mentioned think auto, and i used 5/8" pipe with a thermostatic take off plate
lloyd
is that 5/8 adapters on oilcooler too.
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by Plasticman » 29 Jan 2012, 19:14
theyre very good, we use them on the offroad stuff all the time
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by lloydy » 29 Jan 2012, 19:24
VWGeoff wrote: lloydy wrote: i got a 25 row setrab oil cooler, from the above mentioned think auto, and i used 5/8" pipe with a thermostatic take off plate
lloyd
is that 5/8 adapters on oilcooler too.
from memory the female connector on the oil cooler (setrab) is M10. So you need a M10 to 5/8" adapter nipple. The thinkauto place sell the adapters
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