More 3.6 upgrade stuff/temp reduction with splitter & tandem cooler/SCWDP material

[Joe Bob]

OK dokey......the Dr Steve crate motor progresses. The drive home found elevated oil temps.....single Carrera oil cooler w/o fan in place of the stock euro style brass row.

Conversion from Centigrade temp readings found temps at 275 F.......JUST A LITTLE too warm......

Addition of the splitter and help from the "wide guy" reduced the temps to 248 F.....it hung THERE with 100 mph accels.....only creeped up when in traffic. SO.....the SPAL fan is a GOOD idea.

Here is a pic of the added spiltter....

AND the duck tail I plan on fitting......

[Jack Olsen]

248 is still mighty hot. She's going to need some ducting. Maybe the foglights could come out occasionally so that there could be some air intake there?

As a comparison point, I was running without the benefit of pulling my headlights at WSIR on Friday, and never got above 215 (in unseasonably cool 65 degree ambient).

The ducktail will help, too.

[Joe Bob]

Ya think????, hmmmm gonna put the duck on soon.... see what happens.....I always do one thing at a time to see how it reacts.

That way is somthing screws up, I know what to fix.......film ay 11:00......

[Chuck Moreland]

Mike, I am confused. Nothing unusual about that.

I don't see a splitter in picture. Do you mean that you bought Thoms old mocal cooler and put a splitter in the line to run them in parallel?

If so I'm surprised you are still so hot given the mild temps we are having.

[Joe Bob]

Nope....Thom offered me the cooler AFTER I spent the big bucks to get all the stuff from BAT, the MOCAL dist, in FL.....

My local nu guy friend....Ingo is doing a 3.6 in a 73.....looks like HE will take that cooler and make use of it..... HATE returning stuff, even if it saves money. Just a thing I have......coolers, I like nu....go figure.

As to the splitter....I put a 30mm adapter inline and attached the -12AN line to the mocal with a return an another 30mm adapter. So I have TWO coolers in line like Thom at http://vintagebus.com/howto/cooler/

So....ONWARD.......

[ischmitz]

Yoo yoo, so you're running too hot Mike, hm????

Well, if I get the Mocal for cheap I'll consider that an intermittant solution at best.

In the long run I am still thinking of putting something behind the stock front valance and cutting the pan like the Swiss guy on his orange coupe. Well, I am back in town tomorrow afternoon. 16 hours friggin' seat time on the 747 all the way from Singapore.....

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[Moses]

Mike,

You have a Carrera cooler with fan PLUS a large nose cooler and you are STILL running at 248 degrees?

I'm surprised. Thom lives in Sacramento and drives at Thunderhill. Both places get VERY hot. I don't think he's running as warm as you. (I could be wrong, though.) Is it possible you have a 250 degree thermostat?

[Joe Bob]

Well, that's what the first line on the oil temp gauge reads.....unless mine is calibrated differently than most. Will have to borrow a mag glass to read the numbers on the side......my eyes can't read that little script anymore.

[Joe Bob]

My bad....read the wrong freaking line on the gauge with my mag glass.....

reading "up"
- lower white block...60 degC ( 148 degF)
- white line......... 90 degC ( 194 degF)
- next up white line...120 degC( 248 degF)
- bottom of red block..150 degC ( 302 degF)

So....my initial read BEFORE the second cooler was added was about 230F.....NOW with the second chin mounted cooler, it stays rock steady at the second line, 90C which calcs out at 194F.....THAT I can live with.

I HATE getting old.....gonna have to order those stupid reading glasses, or get bi-focal contacts......

[Moses]

Now you're talkin'! That's great. I hope I can get similar results with my setup. By the way, I always wondered who those TINY little numbers were printed for- tiny little German gnomes with better eyesight than mine.