Oil Cooler Install
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Its been needed for sometime and i finally pulled the finger out!

Had the rocker cover welded up at work and is top quality! working in aerospace does have its perks!

Hopefully my mate will have the catch tank and pipes installed properly as im off on the piss to dublin next week and not back until friday night, so early start for coombe will be fun!

Hopefully see some of you there!?

Gaz

looks nice, love clubmans 8)
what's the spec?
Dan :)

Nice, love the cosmics on that

quick spec, its a spamspeed 1293 N/A ,Spam 27 cam, s rods , lightened balanced crank flywheel, titan 1.5 rockers, JKD sc box and minispeed sc drops with a tran x diff, putting out 85bhp and 93lb/ft torque.

Going to megajolt it and lighten it some more

thanks slater , they are my fave alloys, i really love your john deere mini and ur metty with the banded rims :)

Looks good, I just hope you really need one as you don't want to cool the oil down tooooooo much.

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on Injection?

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im sure you can get a thermostat for the oil for around 100 degrees C.

not sure were to get one though as all the ones i have seen are 70 derees C or somthing for race engines that get oil changes all the time etc.

your install looks very nice by the way mate.

cheers
josh

My build thread..

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=542985

thinkauto sell the thermostats for 92degrees which is apparently the perfect temp for oil (performance wise)

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

92 deg C is much more like it. In normal OEM set ups they aim at the 105 - 110 deg C ish bracket to boil off any water, light oil fractions (such as petrol) and impuraties in the oil to extend service intervals.

Oil temps between 100 and 130 deg are deemed acceptable. As an example my standard Golf Gti used to show 102 when cruzing, 130 when hoping not to meet a police man!

My Mini runs the think 92 deg stat and to be fair it isn't ..... I get nominal oil temps of around 98 deg C on the motorway and upto 125 deg C with a good hard thrash. That is perfectly acceptable to me and yes I have checked my gauge calibration .... on the money.

Every day is a school day ...........

How fast and how expensive ...... the same question...

I really should get one of them oil cooler things........... lol

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on Injection?

http://www.mattwoodsphotography.com

LOL i still don't get that i've never seen oil temp over 95 deg on my n/a 1380 even after sitting on the motorway at 90 for an hour.

It's not on the motorway it gets hot .... it's when you suddenly come to a stop and sit there without moving for several hours ...... in London they call it the rush hour .... like it's only an hour ..LOL

Every day is a school day ...........

How fast and how expensive ...... the same question...

it was running quite hot, but i think it was due to it breathing very heavily and only having the one breather from the transfer case! next job on the list is to do all that, it performed alright yesterday at coombe tho!