Oversized oil cooler? Good or bad idea?

all you need is an oil cooler from a t-4 engine. You will need to do a little fab work on the dog house.

Interesting, however, with the person i spoke about i do not need to modify my dog house. As well, how does a T4 cooler look?

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Thats cool I would be interested to see how you could put a bigger oil cooler in that space.-

it looks like a T-1 cooler just wider, the reason needed to modify the back of the dog house.

Mario

Precisely the same, only thicker by 20-25 % or so. (Two extra rows of passages) You can't make it any thicker, because it will then hit the firewall brhind the fan shroud. You could possibly make it wider? At least a little bit. Maybe an inch. The air would then have longer way to travel through the cooler. It's not as efficient though, because the air starts getting hotter right when it begins to enter the cooler.. the further it travels inside it, the hotter it gets. So at the end of the path, on th eopposite side o fthe cooler, it may not cool the oil very well at all. I don't know. Just thinking out loud.

Jan

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Then he is probably referring to a Type III oil cooler, which has 8 fins per inch (the others have only six).

To use the Type III cooler in a dog-house you need to provide a notch for the Type III oil pressure port (ie, on the cooler in Type III's) or weld it closed and file it flat.

The size of an oil cooler refers to its surface area -- the more surface area, the more heat it can couple to the air flow. With eight fins per inch instead of six the Type III oil cooler has about 25% more surface area although its external dimensions are the same as the Type I oil cooler.

The Type IV oil cooler is physically larger and requires modification of the dog-house.

-Bob Hoover

If you put an oversize oil cooler on be sure to put a thermostat inline so the engine doesn't run too cool. An engine that is yoo cool will wear also. The while idea of the ol cooler and a thermostat is to keep the engine within the optimum temperature range. Timk11

Ok, but note that i am in South Africa and it´s always hotter here. So i was looking to compensate for that, sounds like a T3 or T4 cooler is what i need. Well, i better start searching for one.

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The T-4 cooler works amazingly well. GO to my site

and look at the additional photos below the photos of my car. I show one on a converted T-4. It would look the same for a T-1. If you need anymore cooling you would have to be running a race car at high speeds. Then I suggest the under the front bumper cooler as an addition to the stock cooler with an inline thermo.

If I am not mistaken the T-4 cooler dropped the temp on some cars 20 to 30 degrees. Amazing seeing it is not that much larger then a T-1 cooler. Those Germans knew what they were doing. THe way I look at it, the T-4 runs cooler because it works less so the cooler can be small. Yet the T-1 works harder so the T-4 cooler is the perfect size. Joe

I want to buy that cooler on a scrapyard. How can i explain a scrapyard owner what i want? Or better, what amont of ribs do i need to count, going from the point that when i am offered a bunch of oil coolers, i can pick the right one. I once went to a large scrapyard and asked for a distributor, the owner could not understand what i wanted and ended up showing me a plastic container filled to the brim with distributors, i had to pick it out myself because he simply had no idea.

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Ask for a 2000cc aircooled transporter oil cooler. If I remember corectlly, it has 7 slices. It looks exactly the same as the doghouse cooler for the T1, but is two slices wider. If you find one, send it to your guy to clean it and repair it.

Bill, '67 Bug.

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