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Oil cooler donor?
Fred W B - 7/9/05 at 11:11 AM

Can anybody recommend a car/s that contains a useful engine oil cooler? Also approx sizes, if know, would be great.

I tried a search, but not much luck.

Cheers

Fred WB

DaveFJ - 7/9/05 at 11:12 AM

oil coolers are cheap new on ebay - why bother looking for a donor?

Fred W B - 7/9/05 at 11:17 AM

Because I'm in South Africa.........

Seriously, how much is cheap?

I have tried to buy stuff on ebay from SA, but it's a pain because paypal does not work from SA, and we have to pay import duty

Cheers

Fred WB

Hellfire - 7/9/05 at 11:27 AM

This is currently on for £10


Fred W B - 7/9/05 at 11:34 AM

He's got to be joking - It's damaged.

Fred WB

tadltd - 7/9/05 at 11:37 AM

Hi Fred,

Don't the air-cooled Porsche 911's run a substantial oil cooler?

Try this link:

Porsche Carrera oil cooler info

ned - 7/9/05 at 11:43 AM

astra gte's have ones about the same size as in the pic above. only one i know of off the top of my head. prob a bit small for your rover lump though?!

Ned.

Fred W B - 7/9/05 at 11:45 AM

Hay Steve - Thanks for the link, but I was hoping for something a little more mainstream.

Thanks ned, I drive what is called an Opel 200iS out here, but is actually an astra gte, so will have a look tonight. Doh

Thanks for quick responses, will you guys let me get back to work now?

Cheers

Fred WB

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Volvorsport - 7/9/05 at 11:47 AM

volvo 740 turbo - if you got em there

tadltd - 7/9/05 at 11:50 AM

The Land Rover 300 Tdi has a combined radiator/oil cooler

tadltd - 7/9/05 at 11:56 AM

These guys are based in South Africa:

http://www.ultracooltech.co.za/

They clean heat exchangers / oil coolers, so they might be able to help with local info'

tadltd - 7/9/05 at 11:58 AM

Isuzu Trooper...

You're just not trying hard enough, Fred!

nick205 - 7/9/05 at 12:39 PM

Peugeot 205/309 1.9GTi has an oil cooler as well. I think the VW VR6 models have one too.

marktigere1 - 7/9/05 at 03:41 PM

Honda Twin Cam in the Rover 216 has a water cooled oil cooler mounted beneath the oil filter.

Probably of no use but thought I'd mention it.

Cheers

Mark

Fred W B - 7/9/05 at 06:11 PM

Okay, haven't been to a car scrapyard yet, but went past a bike breakers on the way home, hoping to find a cooler from an oilcooled Suzuki. That they didn't have, but they did have these. At R100 (say 8 pounds) for both, it seemed rude not to take them.

Cheers

Fred WB
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benji106 - 7/9/05 at 06:22 PM

wow, bargain, the phone alone is worth more than that!

owelly - 9/9/05 at 04:14 PM

Oh, I hadn't realised you were trying to cool a lawnmower

ChrisGamlin - 9/9/05 at 09:37 PM

A lot of large automatic cars have oil coolers on the gearboxes, espeically if designed / used for towing so that may be worth looking into.

rusty nuts - 10/9/05 at 12:27 PM

How about an M.G.B.? not many in breakers here these days but you may be lucky in your part of the world.