[DeTomaso] oil cooler

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Mike,

Having just done this I have the installation process fairly fresh in my memory. I installed mine vertical (John Taphorn style) on the firewall but mine did not require a hole in the chassis. This seemed logical as my car already had the swirl tank removed by a previous owner. Thomas T installed his horizontal underneath the AC compressor. These both seem like a better position than up front as even with hardline parallel to the water tubes for the oil you're looking at quite a lot of hose plus all the transitions between hose and hardline which in itself will introduce restriction. Let me know if you need any more info later. Right now it's Friday night here and I've already started drinking! :-)

Tomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: <boyd411 at gmail.com>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] oil cooler


> In a message dated 10/9/08 17 13 36, boyd411 at gmail.com writes:
> 
> 
>> How complex is it to hook up an external oil cooler?
>> 
> Getting a traditional air-to-oil cooler to work in a Pantera is next to 
> impossible.   Some Pantera vendors sell kits that place one of these coolers behind 
> a louvered panel in the wheelwell, but their effectiveness is highly suspect, 
> and probably nil.   
> 
> Thomas Tornblom, Tomas Gunnersson, Jack DeRyke, Jason Eaton and others have 
> successfully adapted the Laminova-built Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor 
> water-to-oil heat exchanger (which is both an oil HEATER and an oil COOLER, 
> depending upon the circumstances) into their Panteras.
> 
> Here's a short blurb w/photos from Jason's website:
> 
> http://www.jasoneaton.net/2008/04/oil-sandwich.html
> 
> Chris Difani and I have decided to attempt to generate a bolt-in kit 
> utilizing these coolers.   Just today I went trolling the junkyards in Sacramento and 
> found two of them; we have quite a few more that are coming to us shortly from 
> junkyards across the country that specialize in Crown Victoria police cars.
> 
> We are still sorting out the mechanics of installing them in the Pantera.   
> Most people have stuck them in the engine bay, which requires completely 
> re-plumbing the water lines, and moving things around on the firewall.
> 
> With Chris' car on the lift, we poked around and I noticed that there was 
> ample space to put the thing right behind the radiator.   You know the two short 
> metal pipes which reach up from underneath the car and curve towards the 
> radiator outlets?   It would be fairly simple to hack the middle out of one of 
> those, and substitute the cooler in its place.   Brackets would be needed to 
> secure the cooler to the underside of the car.   Short flex lines would lead to the 
> bottom of the car, and then hard lines (same size, and parallel to the brake 
> vacuum pipe) would lead to the engine bay, where two more flex lines would 
> lead to the sandwich adapter at the oil filter.
> 
> We have a ways to go yet; after we have a stack of coolers in-hand, we'll be 
> dismantling them, replacing seals where necessary, pressure-testing them, and 
> then we'll be using Chris' car as the guinea pig.   Stay tuned! :>)
> 
> Mike
> 
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