2012 Z Factory Oil Cooler - PIC AND PART NUMBERS INSIDE

Q8y_drifter

^^ Actually you CAN remove it.

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Alstann

I agree. Seeing as it is just a sandwich plate between the oil filter, with two inlet/outlet tubes, you could definetly just disconnect them and run new tubing to an aftermarket cooler. Unless I missed something further back in the thread.

That being said, my personal experience with the OEM oil cooler has netted me average driving temperatures of 200F, and an idle just a tad higher than that. Pretty good, imo. When I pushed it at the drag strip and let the car sit with little to no idle, the temperatures peaked 230 that night. Not bad at all for pretty much the worst condition it could be in.

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glenthall

Not unless you want to void your warranty.
Prior to year 2012 using an oil cooler would not void your warranty
unless the cooler damaged the car.

Now with Nissan adding an insufficient POS oil cooler in 2012 as they have,
you cannot remove it (part of the factory installed cooling system) without
voiding your entire engine warranty.

The dealer now has no suggested add'l cooling options for the 2012 model that will not void the warranty.

Nissan has effectively removed the performance experience from their performance car.

This is my 2nd new Z and will be my last Nissan purchase of any kind.

Nissan needs to get their head out of their ***.

psibrr

I've read somewhere that the 350's had the same cooler. I do not know
if the track group made an issue about that, they just added their XY-row
air cooler up front and put pedal to metal.

I would imagine a 'die-hard' tracker would remove 500 lbs of 'deadweight'
'stock crap', such as a/c, door locks, resonance plates, stereo, etc., and
that putting an cooler up front is standard.

Back to DD reality, with light city & sub-100mph hot days the issue for me is
that the oil is too cold! 212F is the reference temp for oil viscosity standards
but I can drive 25 - 32 mile one way and temp just crawls up to 200F.

Only seen 220 stuck in traffic for 15 mn, or highway backup for that time
after doing 75-95 for 10min. Still, that's just 8F over ideal, and with full
ester synth that should not be a problem.

The z is an optimized DD, if you want specialized track, just do it. I would
gripe about the fact that for the price, the HP needs upgrade about 100,
though with 2 more cylinders, the weight would reduce the w/p gains.

Jordo!

There's a lot of variance. I rarely see over 215* F in extended brisk driving on a 90+ F* day. Typical under those conditions is about 205* F. On the highway I might see 225-230* F in that heat, but never higher.

I did find that adding those arc cool fins to the bottom of the oil pain really helped bring down temps by as much as 10 - 15* F on the average. Looks and sounds ghetto, but the principle is sound -- it just adds metal fins to help disperse heat.

Works remarkably well, especially considering how simple to install (affixed with heat conductive adhesive) and how cheap (about 20 bucks a pack -- you can fit 2-3 packs on the oil pan and another 1-2 on the diff cover).

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DEpointfive0

Being a warranty master... Brother, you're kinda wrong... Yeah tampering with the cooling is a no-no, but if a dealer says that they're going to void your warranty because you took that POS off, you need a new dealer who is mod friendly.
When the shít does hit the fan in any scenario, revert to stock, but there will be no real evidence this thing was uninstalled.
50% of members have an UpRev tune... THAT will void your warranty, why worry about a factory "oil" cooler