[FC] Oil Cooler

Bryan Blackwell bryan at skiblack.com
Sun Mar 27 20:11:07 EST 2005


I don't suppose you took a photo of this setup?  Our van is a PG, and 
we run it full often enough that this might be a good mod for us.  
Given how quickly it browns the (synth) oil, I know it's hard on the 
oil.

--Bryan

On Mar 25, 2005, at 11:06 PM, Greenbrier Goon wrote:

> Back when my van still had the Powerglide, It had a big Mazda RX7 oil 
> cooler mounted ahead of the transmission.  I put it there because the 
> engine consistantly ran high oil temperatures. My gauge only reads up 
> to 250F and it would easily peg the guage.  If I removed the lower 
> shrouds, it would read about 225 aroud town and 240 on the highway.  
> The Mazda cooler brought it down to 180 to 200 around town and on the 
> freeway.  I had that cooler on there for 7 years.



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