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Necessity of oil cooler in 16v rocco?



On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 03:46:35 -0800 (PST) Ron Pieper <rapieper@yahoo.com>
writes:
>First Shawn sez:
>>...it does help warm up the oil when its cold. 
>
>>From which one can infer that it's an effective heat exchanger.


Since the H2O temp will rise much faster than the oil temp, it helps to
warm up the oil. BFD. Oh yeah, therest of the world lives in the world of
that ice and snow stuff. OK, might be important to you then. 


>Den Shawn sez:
>
>>Its very limited as a heat exchanger. 
>
>Now, AFA it's *capability*, which is it?


As a heat exchanger, its limited to what the other fluid is doing. As an
installed oil cooler has the ability to keep the oil temp cooler than the
H2O temp. It wont force heat into the cooling system either. So, its very
limited, it does do SOMETHING but its not much compared to a regular oil
cooler AND you dont hafve the fear of the seams comming apart making a
mess of the bearings. 



>It's *reliability* is a given, and IMO (and yours) it's NOT.  


Is that in english?



>FWIW, I'm removing mine, some upcoming month.  I have a Volvo Turbo
>t-statted sandwich adapter and cooler (with proper Parker-Hannifin
>crimp fittings and 2000psi lines (FREE - the owner of the local Parker
>distributorship is a friend.  Good contacts are part of the Cheapass
>philosophy)).   Soon as I figure out where to mount the cooler.  Yeah,
>I know, in FRONT of the radiator...would like some existing install
>photos, though.



Im sure you will figure it out. 


Shawn Méze
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82' Scirocco GTi -FSP 54-     79' "Project FSP Scirocco"
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