2nd Fender Oil Cooler Line Location Questions

[TonyG]

A few people have run a 2nd fender mount oil cooler in the drivers front fender.

I am going to do the same.

The question is where, for those of you that have done this, did you run the oil lines across from the right side of the car to the left side of the car? In the trunk or around the front of the car?

Where do you punch through to get the lines across for the 2nd cooler?


TonyG

[Jack Olsen]

My lines run through the trunk. I have an early car, so the battery box delete plates got the holes, if I'm remembering right.

[TonyG]

Jack,

I'm looking at my current config (which you've seen/driven).

It's got a standard 3.2 Carrera cooler in the stock location.

The issue is, with the current setup, that I'm not sure where to "punch through" to get to the other side.

Looking at the setup as-is from the passenger front wheel area, there does not seem to be a way to route a new oil line in front of the existing oil cooler. It seems that all oil lines must penetrate the car from behind the current oil cooler. And if this is the case, which it seems as it is, I'm not sure where those of us that have done so, .... have done so... :-)

In short, I'm not seeing a "clean" way of getting the lines across the car.

TonyG

[vash]

i helped with this install. i think jon got the instructions from elephant racing. basically, the lines ran behind the front bumper. so they dont go thru the truck. the second cooler is mounted upside down ( you have to butcher a stoneguard), so the lines can attach at the bottom. here is the kicker. when you get the kit, the long lines are not built yet. you get the fittings and two long sections of stock lines. you have to figure out exactly how long the lines need to be, before you get the fittings attached at a hydralic hose shop.

the set up is cool as hell. (hey! a "pun"!) it is invisible, and works quite well. if you get the kit from elephant, i think he gives you a 90 fitting, and a 3 straight fittings. i think either 2-90's or a single 45 would work better coming. when you do this, you will understand. that hose is hard to bend around tight corners. tip; dont disconnect the lights from the bumper. get a pair of sawhorses out, and put the bumper on it, right in front of the car. there is enough slack in the wires to do this. putting the wires back on, was hell.

[vash]

found it.

http://www.elephantracing.com/project/dualcooler/dualcoolermain.htm

[gumba]

I've done this set up on a couple of cars. You don't need to drill holes through the trunk. On the 74 and newer you can attach the lines to the body behind the bumper. On the '73's I tucked the lines behind the spoiler.
I justed added the Elephant cooler to our '75. I mounted the cooler up side down. At the drivers side cooler 2-45's work better than 90's. On the passenger side 1 straight connector from the hard line to drivers side cooler and a 90 from the drivers side cooler back to the passenger side cooler. I went with slip on connections instead of the crimp style, makes it a lot easier. If you go with the crimp style you need to orient the fittings to the coolers. Make a mark on the hose and the fitting so it lines up with the connector on the cooler. This is so your not trying to twist the hose to get the connector to line up.
Also the Elephant cooler has provisions for a thermostat. If you don't use it you need to plug the hole. I used a 14mm x 1.5 bolt.

[JP911]

Vash helped me do this job on my '74. I wanted to retain a stock look, but needed more cooling so this was the perfect solution. Aside from the routing of the plumbing, the job requires some fabrication creativity. You need to find a new home for the horns (I moved mine to the left side of the car, in front of the new cooler), reshape the stone guard for the new cooler, make mounts for the new cooler, cut holes in the passenger side stone guard to accommodate the new plumbing, and I notched the underside of my bumper to improve air flow to both coolers.

[DW SD]

Make sure you give a bit of thought to how the oil will flow through the new coolers, so you do not trap air in the coolers. Obviously, they are not effective, if significant portions of air are trapped within.
I'm not sure if air would bleed properly if the inlet / outlet to the cooler is mounted towards the ground.

If necessary, a bleeder could be added. I can't imagine how that would be necessary, though.

Like the others, I believe there would be sufficient room to pass the lines through the bumper as opposed to going through the trunk.

I have a large nose mounted cooler for my 3.6 conversion, which is sufficient for winter months, but soon I will be adding a carrera cooler in series so as to ensure proper cooling in the summer.

Good luck!

Doug

[surflvr911sc]

Two Carrera Oil Coolers for the 3.6 Finished! - LONG

[TonyG]

Thanks everyone...

From the pics, I see that the lines actually 180 around the top of the stock cooler.... which answers my question.

TonyG