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Looking through the Mini Spares site and I happened to come across. What do you chaps think? Glorified heater matrix or worth further investigation?

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Price £157.85 exc vat £185.47 inc vat
For: Classic Mini
Part No. ERA1160
http://www.minispares.com/Product.aspx?pid=35832

Edited by Stig on 29th Sep, 2005.

Looks like a tall oil-cooler to me.......

It looks bl**dy expensive for a small rad with no fitings.

http://www.rabdunn.co.uk/

it is an oil cooler, used as a rad, I've seen them before,

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does anyone know how these where plumbed into the ERA?

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This is where it goes
http://www.turbominis.co.uk/index.php?p=slideshow&id=452

The original one I had in was crap!

It was really an oil cooler....the 'waterways' were very thin and the flow of water was restricted....causing hot spots in the system.

I used the smallest heater matrix i could find...5 quid and then got a local radiator place to put the headers on ...10 quid....so it cost.....yep you guessed it ...a shed load than that piece of crap that was on in the first place.

It runs on average between 85 88

hope this helps?

Looks very tall for 16 rows if it is a oil cooler

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just looks like a metro turbo oil cooler to me and yes to bloody espensive for what it does.

as said a second hand heater matrix plumbed into the heater take off will do the job.

a fiesta one is a piece of piss to take out.

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yes i've used a second hand heater matrix for years now and it does the trick, and you'll find you have £180 SPEAR in your back pocket!

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yep! oil cooler

i will go along with hoggy with the fiesta heater matrix nice size to shoe horn under the bonnet

Thanks very much chaps thought it was a bit £££ just surprised to see it on the mini spares site.

how have you plumbed yours in willy?

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you'll find you have £180 SPEAR in your back pocket!


Fookin Zulu's

you should see his shield its awsome lol.

he plumbed his in the same as mine which is straight out of the heater tap into extra rad then into the iside car heater.

but make sure your get some pipe which ci=omes with the heater as they are 1/2 in id weres most m,inis are 7/16 id i think

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

I used the oil cooler one many years back (Must of had to much cash :) ) the way I had it installed was to tap a fitting into the head just under the heater tap take off and run a hose from there to the extra rad then back into a T piece at the heater return line. Worked a treat when sitting in traffic going to shows back in the hot summers of the early 90's.

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