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How do 8V oil coolers Work?

Subject: How do 8V oil coolers Work?
From: gforbess at attglobal.net (Gordon Forbess)
Date: Mon Aug 23 11:17:01 2004
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:01:44 -0700 (PDT), Neptuno
<neptunonc@yahoo.com> wrote:

>There has been much talk on this list at different
>time about buying and instaling external oil coolers
>from volvos and sanwdish style oil coolers from GTI's
>and so fort, but how do tghis things work? DO they all
>work the same? Some seem to be coolant cooling oil and
>others seem to be oil coolers getting cooled by a
>radiator type cooler. Is that right? ARe there more
>than one way to cool the oil?

Mine is simple - just a thermo controlled sandwich plate, cooler and
hoses.  You can do a neater job (and easier oil changes)if you mount
the filter remotely, but the fitting on the block is IIRC pretty
expensive.
http://pws.prserv.net/gforbess/scirocco/cooler.jpg

Gordon

75 Mk I/Drake 1.9
http://pws.prserv.net/gforbess/scirocco/scirocco.htm

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