Laminova Oil-Water heat exchanger

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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