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Originally Posted by 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

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Old 05-27-2012, 02:46 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by psibrr View Post
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.
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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