[DeTomaso] Oil coolers?

Sat Jun 2 08:37:13 EDT 2012

Mine is located in front of the RR tire, works great, oil temp always about
40 degrees warmer than water.

Michael Shortt
On Jun 2, 2012 7:14 AM, "Tomas Gunnarsson" <guson at home.se> wrote:

> I installed mine in the location John Taphorn uses. I chose to route the
> tubes around the car, not through though. The two oil lines have about
> three
> meters of length together. That's about what you'd have in a front engine
> car with a front mounted air/oil cooler too. I used 5/8" hose as the Ford
> cooler nipples were that size. I can't see that my oil pressure has dropped
> on the gauge which is good enough for me.
>
> Tomas
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: den 31 maj 2012 00:18
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Oil coolers?
>
>
> I use a Laminova oil cooler and it does are great job. The problem is where
> to put it and how long your oil lines are going to be to and from it. You
> will lose oil pressure because of the oil line lenghts, so that is
> something
> to consider, but it can be compensated for. As most of us here already
> know,
> mounting an air to air oil cooler is difficult in a Pantera because it
> would
> be hard to get cool air to flow through it. I have thought about putting an
> air to air oil cooler where the air conditioning condenser is, but there
> tends to be an air flow problem there above 100 mph or so.
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