Laminova Oil-Water heat exchanger

ChipsWithDips · 03-22-2013, 11:54 AM

I purchased a laminova cooler recently, but haven't quite decided how to arrange this and route all the damn coolant and oil lines. At first I thought I could have it mostly vertical from the lower radiator hose to the engine inlet. But the thing is so long that it would be sticking out of my hood if I did that. Also this was under the assumption that I convert to aftermarket intake so the intake boxes are not in the way.

I guess my current idea is to lay it down along the bottom of the radiator, but then the coolant hose has to do a 180, and come back to the engine, the 180 pipes or silicone couplers are also really wide and have to worry about hitting the fan shrouds and crank pulley, and agh my brain is hurting again thinking about this.

I wish this thing had female NPT threads on the sides (like most other oil coolers and sandwich plate adapters) instead of these AN fittings because you could make it a lot more compact using something like this

rather than this sticking out of opposite sides.

I think I'm actually going to try drilling and tapping these AN flanges to convert them into NPT female fitting. I can maybe take some pics of how huge all this crap is later.

gomer_110 · 03-22-2013, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Khoi@AAMComp

is there still any interest on this?? sorry bringing this back for discussion

Yes. Faster oil warm up in the winter and constant cooling even at a standstill in the summer. Sounds great to me.

What I'd really love to see is a kit so that I don't have to piece mail this together. Most important parts would be molded radiator hoses to make this work.

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Originally Posted by ChipsWithDips

I purchased a laminova cooler recently, but haven't quite decided how to arrange this and route all the damn coolant and oil lines. At first I thought I could have it mostly vertical from the lower radiator hose to the engine inlet. But the thing is so long that it would be sticking out of my hood if I did that. Also this was under the assumption that I convert to aftermarket intake so the intake boxes are not in the way.

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What model did you get? Looking at their offering the longest one is only like 16" at most. Also did you plan on running this cooler with the stock radiator?

ChipsWithDips · 03-23-2013, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by gomer_110

Yes. Faster oil warm up in the winter and constant cooling even at a standstill in the summer. Sounds great to me.

What I'd really love to see is a kit so that I don't have to piece mail this together. Most important parts would be molded radiator hoses to make this work.

What model did you get? Looking at their offering the longest one is only like 16" at most. Also did you plan on running this cooler with the stock radiator?

Yeah it is 16" long but that's not taking into account that you'll need at least a 90 elbow for the coolant on each end, which adds quite a few more inches. If you measure from the bottom radiator outlet to the engine inlet, it is only about 14 inches vertical anyways. There's also plenty of crap in the way like fan shroud, AC line, intake pipe(absolutely no way with stock airbox), AC compressor pulley. There's really not much room at all to do it vertically. There is a small chance it could work if I hack up the coolant flanges and weld some tight radius Aluminum elbows directly to them. Still thinking about this...

Also I just ordered some new AN Female to Male 90 degree fittings(didn't think to look for that until just now) in place of 90 degree hose ends, these should make the overall assembly much less wide.

gomer_110 · 03-23-2013, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ChipsWithDips

Yeah it is 16" long but that's not taking into account that you'll need at least a 90 elbow for the coolant on each end, which adds quite a few more inches. If you measure from the bottom radiator outlet to the engine inlet, it is only about 16 inches vertical anyways. There's also plenty of crap in the way like fan shroud, AC line, intake pipe(absolutely no way with stock airbox), AC compressor pulley. There's really not much room at all to do it vertically. There is a small chance it could work if I hack up the coolant flanges and weld some tight radius Aluminum elbows directly to them. Still thinking about this...

Also I just ordered some new AN Female to Male 90 degree fittings(didn't think to look for that until just now) in place of 90 degree hose ends, these should make the overall assembly much less wide.

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Don't know what I was thinking initially. Was changing out my radiator today and can definitely see I was on something after seeing the limited room.

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