Using factory fender cooler shroud w/aftermarket cooler

[toddu]

Has anyone successfully used the factory fender cooler guard with an aftermarket cooler? I have a cooler that is the approximate dimensions across the "face" to the stock cooler, but other than that everything is basically different. I was going to fab up a shroud from sheet metal, but then got to thinking that it might not be terribly difficult to get the stock one to somehow fit.

Anyone done this? Better off just fabing something up?

Todd

[Roger 911]

It might depend on what your priorities are. If you care about having a "factory look" inside your fender, get the OE shroud. If not, it's pretty easy to cut a shroud out of sheet aluminum. I did this with a Mocal cooler for my '72 a few years ago (primarily a DE car at the time, so aesthetics were not a concern).

This was very effective for me, especially with the little scoop dipping down into the airflow underneath the car.

Roger

[ClickClickBoom]

Here ya go:
Oil Cooler Baffling!

[Steve@Rennsport]

Originally Posted by ClickClickBoom

Here ya go:
Oil Cooler Baffling!

Looks like some damned airplane mechanic did that,....

[schumicat]

I don't think you used enough rivets....

Originally Posted by ClickClickBoom

Here ya go:
Oil Cooler Baffling!

[ClickClickBoom]

Originally Posted by Steve@Rennsport

Looks like some damned airplane mechanic did that,....

Brought the F-W down to KSCK yesterday, most of Oregon and Northern Calif were covered with smoke 2 hours of instrument flying in a 55 year old plane with no autopilot. Haven't flown steam gauges in 20 years....

[Steve@Rennsport]

Originally Posted by ClickClickBoom

Brought the F-W down to KSCK yesterday, most of Oregon and Northern Calif were covered with smoke 2 hours of instrument flying in a 55 year old plane with no autopilot. Haven't flown steam gauges in 20 years....

Good mental exercise for you!!

I wish I could have gone with you, but work keeps me tied down.

I haven't flown a glass cockpit so I'm right at home with all that old school stuff.

[toddu]

All good examples, thanks!!!

[HawgRyder]

You want poor ventilation?
Try a Lightning...no real air flow...can't roll the windows down or the drag causes mucho yaw...LOL
No heat on a cold day either.
And...no auto pilot!
Bob