Carrera oil cooler lower mount in a SC

[James Brown]

doing research on the procedure for mounting a carrera oil cooler in my 1981 SC. I'm reading along in Wayne's 101 book and I see the lower oil cooler bracket has to be welded in? Has anyone ever bolted it in? can a bracket be fabricated for this?
I plan on having the car on jack stands and the wheel removed. not the time to "just drive over to a welder and have them weld it on"
I did a search and could not find any info about this. I don't have a welder but I have all the other parts.
Might sell this setup and go with a front mounted cooler. Thanks!

[fred cook]

This is how I mounted an aftermarket cooler in the wheelwell of my SC:

The first picture is of the completed bracket mounted in the wheelwell.



This picture shows the cooler mounted using the vibration isolators:



This is a picture of the hand made dirt/stone shield:



I think that I wound up having to drill 2 holes in the fender.

[joefrantz]

I bolted mine in and used a coule of nylon spacers to position it.
You won't have the battery box to deal with on the SC, but I assume the inner fender shape is the same.

Joe

[PcarPhil]

I too bolted on the Carrera lower mount on my '77. No biggie. I guess the hardest part is getting the mounting location correct. It would help if you had another Carrera to look at.

[sjf911]

I bolted mine as well. I also had to reposition it. When I first installed it I could not source a Carrera horn bracket. The SC horn bracket interferes with the fan assembly and so I had occasional tire rub. I finally found a Carrera bracket on ebay and installed it and repositioned the lower bracket this winter.

[James Brown]

ok great thanks for the info. This is one of the projects that you need to have all your ducks in a row prior to starting. good job

[PcarPhil]

Don't forget about the upper mount that attaches to the back of the headlight bucket. On my car I bolted the upper mount to the back of my fiberglass bucket.