couple of questions on sandwich plate
 

Ok, I am posting this in response to a friends comment off line. I want to show him the responses when said and done.

Couple of questions about the picture (please read and respond to the questions).....

1) What is this?
2) If ONLY driving during warm weather months is it needed?

For this example please note an external oil cooler is present.



https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4392/...bbf9edf0_k.jpg20170806_080122 by bmcgrath2112, on Flickr

Isn't that the OEM oil cooler? Why would you take it off (especially in the warmer months) unless you were replacing it with a better air-to-air oil cooler?

Was in a rush posting. I forgot, and updated OP, For this example please note an external oil cooler is present.

So he was running with that and the sandwich plate for the oil cooler? Or he took that off when he installed the better aftermarket oil cooler? If he went to an aftermarket oil cooler, you don't need the factory cooler.

Taken off when aftermarket was installed.

So what I was thinking, this is my car for the question, I thought both could be run in tandem?

Nope. You'd end up with 3-4" of sandwich plates, and most likely wouldn't be able to put on the oil filter. Anyway, it wouldn't help. An air-to-air oil cooler would be able to get the oil colder than the water to air OEM one, so you'd cool the oil down and then heat it back up. Just ditch the OEM one and go with aftermarket.

Even if you get everything to fit, it's just another place to spring a leak or something else to go wrong. Follow the KISS principle.

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