DIY: Oil Cooler (scratch built install, lottsa pics).....>.

Billy830

What lenghts of hose did you end up with. How was the routing no critical bends? How many anti chaffing clamps did you use if you did, no tie wraps I hope?

TRU-COOL L7B 24 row
#10 stainless covered teflon hose 10' long
# 10 stainless parker hanifin crimp fittings
mocal sandwich plate 180 deg
1/2 npt to #10 an 90 for cooler
1/2 npt to #10 an straight for mocal sandwich plate, if I need 90's I will change out.
redline oil which I am already running, I may lose a little when I change out filter.

Well I finally did the oil cooler yesterday. Went pretty easy. I am sorry that I did not take any pictures. I was too darn hot from the S Florida Sun.
I used parker hanifin crimped fittings wth stainless braide hose. The route that I took was to knock out one of plastic molded squares on the bottom passenger side, radiator mount ? Some of them are full squares about 2" by 2" by 2", the one that I knocked out was only 1/4" thick just above the transmission cooler lines. This made for a good routing. Up over the aluminum frame straight down to the mocal plate with 90 deg fittings. Used the transmission cooler brackets to install hose clamps one for each line.
Today I got the Hotchkis sway bars on while I had the front splash quard off.
Installed in the second hole and see how it handles there.

Ran it pretty hard on some farm back roads. Temp got to 210 and stayed there and I was at a buck and just over, stopping and getting on it for a while. With out the cooler I know that I would have been at 250+. Looks like a winner to me.

Mag Black B&M short shifter, cold air intake with inverted cone, Hotchkis swaybars, 25 row oil cooler, Invidia Exhaust, Osiris Tuned