2012 H20 + Air oil cooler
 

Does anyone know if any company has come out with a solution that will allow the 2012 guys to run either an upgraded water to oil, or replace/ run in addition to an Air/oil cooler. I would like to do a track day and Im fairly certain that the stock water to oil will be insufficient. thanks for your help.
P.S. I used the search so don't be a D-bag.

Run an additional oil cooler. The 2012 stock wont be enough.

yes I understand that the stock wont be enough, im asking if any company has come up with a solution that would either utilize the stock 2012 water to oil in addition to an air cooler or perhaps just improve upon the stock water to oil since the lines are already in place.

Right now were running the stock oil cooler with Stillen oil cooler. So your able to run both.

have you tried running the stock one by itself? how does it hold up to track use?

Does your car have the 2012 oil:water cooler? you have stacked the two oil coolers? I was told that will not work? :ugh2:

If you wanted to eliminate the factory water:oil cooler, couldn't you just remove it and connect the coolant lines to each other? Then, you could run an aftermarket air:oil cooler?

One of the members over in the track section has reported that the stock cooler on the 2012s is far from sufficient for the track. Street only, get aftermarket.

I will be at streets of willow again tomorrow 2012 stock cooler to write down more temps on how it handles. Tomorrow should be warmer so I will see if it goes past 255 before end of each run.

Since the 2012 setup has been used for the past few years in other markets (Austrailia & the Middle East specifically), we have sold numerous Z1 Motorsports Oil Cooler Kits to 370Z owners with the factory Oil-Water type coolers installed. I have some pictures available and I believe there are some posted here on the370Z.com as well for more info.

Almost all 370Z Oil Cooler kits on the market (including our own) will work with the 2012 models without any issues. The ONLY model that will NOT WORK from what I can tell, based on their design, will be the Nissan Motorsports kits. The Stillen kits MAY NOT work, I am not 100% sure yet.

- Nissan Motorsports - The supplied oil cooler sandwich plate was designed to work in place of the factory Oil-to-water sandwich plate. Unless a supplement package is announced and released. 2012 owners who purchase the Nissan Motorsports Oil Cooler Kit will need to purchase an additional sandwich plate conversion kit similar to our Z1 Motorsports Oil Cooler Sandwich Plate Conversion Kit.
- Stillen - Stillen will have to confirm this. But since their supplied sandwich plate does not allow for a stock size Nissan Oil Filter, the contact area for their sandwich plate may not seal properly with the OEM Oil-to-Water sandwich plate installed. This is pure speculation.

There will be some additional creativity required to route the cooler lines do to the added spacing as a result of the factory cooler now being present. We will be updating our installation manual soon with an amendment for the 2012+ models.

Deleting the factory Water-oil Cooler is not advisable. I say keep it. This will help you with the colder oil temp issues that seem to plague most owners after installing a seperate oil-air oil cooler system.

Is the revised installation manual complete? I have purchased from your company a few times (fluids and wheel spacers). I'm interested in purchasing your oil cooler kit, but I would like to read the manual before purchasing and see the pictures for 2012's.

Thank you!

-Ray

Having had my oil cooler for 16-17 months, and only 3-4 months, at the beginning without one, it is so nice to be able to drive more and stop focusing on oil temp. They got high so quickly before.

Hey man that video you did of chasing ferraris on some mountain roads out west was the reason that I purchased my Z, well i guess there was other reasons as well, but I watched that video and the sound was sooooooooooooo much better than my beastly GTI that I had to get a Z. Although my GTI would destroy almost all Z's I still like the Z better. anyway.... any pics of the 2012 with both coolers would be really great.

Stillen Oil cooler does work with the 2012. Just need a few extra parts.

I am in also with instruction/pictures, I need to order this ASAP as well. I didn't know it was so easy to piggy back a 2nd sandwich plate.

Edit: Forgot to mention, how many rows are people running that has the stock oil cooler+your kit. Don't want to cool the oil too much for daily driving......but take the car to the track often.

Please provide more detail on how

How did it go?

I know I'm a little bit late to the party. :wtf2:

Do you have any numbers relating to this? I believe it is not adequate for serious track use but am wondering if I will be okay for some hot laps. Will I get 10 minutes of track time at a time out of it or am I going to be done after one lap?

I just bought an Z1 Oil Cooler kit with an setrab 25 row, ive had some track time and for extended periods the car will reach 260+ degrees at witch time I go for an cooldown lap.

I would like to see pictures of an "stacked" oil cooler install of 2012+ with oil to coolant and oil to water installed, and would like to know if there is any issue with clearance with the stock oil filter or an optional mobil1 m100.

You have two choices:
1. Delete the factory water/oil heat exchanger sandwich plate and just join the coolant lines together - but you must fit a thermostatic sandwich plate otherwise your oil takes ages to heat up.
2. Stack/piggyback the external oil cooler on top of the stock heat exchanger by fitting the external cooler system's sandwich plate literally in between the stock unit and the standard size oil filter. It's a tight squeeze from people's reports but it's not impossible. I believe Stillen kits require a specific model oil filter which they outline in the instructions.

http://www.the370z.com/engine-drivet...te-2012-a.html

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I am dumping the factory cooler for the 2012 and going with a thermostatic mocal plate with a 34 row Setrab oil cooler. Just buy a kit with everything you need. I got mine for F.I. No since in keeping the factory unit, it just heats it up even more.