Dual Setrab oil coolers installed (pics)

[Trevor]

Details are in this thread:
Details on my new oil cooler setup

[Mellon]

it's a shame you're having to go through all that trouble just to get the temp back to factory I hate spending money on parts that don't make me go faster (brakes lol)

that's a bitchin setup though, looks very nice. Do you have shields on the side of the front mount to keep air from escaping past it?

[Trevor]

Like this?

[mikes2nd]

no big pressure loss?

thats what i was worried about.

I relocated my stocker to the front with earls lines

[pengulns2001]

nice that looks incredible well done whats the pressure at?

[Trevor]

You're not going to have a big pressure drop with them in parallel like that. The oil now has two paths to choose from simultaneously instead of being foced thru one cooler (of less efficient design I might add). It's like adding another lane to a highway. Now granted there's going to be some minimal additional pressure loss from the longer lines but running two coolers will MORE than make up for it.

If I were to have run them in series then I'd have a hell of a pressure drop.

I'm not going to be starting the car for at least a week...still waiting on the turbos to come back from the builders.

[pengulns2001]

while its sitting like that do you think you could take a pic of the front manifold/turbo area for me it would help me out a TON and i see you have a y pipe going into your intercooler do you reccoment that or having a dual inake intercooler

[John Monnin]

Originally Posted by Trevor

I'm not going to be starting the car for at least a week...still waiting on the turbos to come back from the builders.

Sorry to go off topic but what turbos are you going to? From the disco Potato thread it sounded like you were considering something similar to a 14B?

P.S. The setup looks nice. If you still have overheating problems you might want to add a electric fan to the oil coolers, but since you have 2 now that might get expensive.

One thing that I am considering is a side mounted A/C condensor. It would have to be 3 or 4 rows thick to compensate for the overall decrease in size, it would require a separate fan and it still would probably not work as good as stock but it would allow the stock radiator to be a 1/2" thicker. I know some engineers at SCS (they make A/C units for our trucks, and a lot of retrofit kits for classic cars) IF I every get serious about this I will have them run the numbers to see if it would work at all.

[VR-4Maniac]

I don't want to speak incorrectly for Trevor, but I believe he is going with 14Bs.


Matt

[John Monnin]

Trevor do you have a picture of your intercooller air deflectors with the front bumper on?

I have read that it is better to have the opening in your bumper smaller than your intercooler/radiator. The theory is that the intercooler slows down air flow so much that air wants to go around it. If the bumper opening larger than the radiator the air can flow away from the intercooler because the taper of the air deflectors lets the air go sideways and right back out the bumper opening around the edges. The air trying to go around the intercooler has to fight the air coming into the bumper going rearward but it does not have to fight as hard to go sideways so some of the cooling air gets away

But if the bumper opening is smaller than the radiator when the air tries to go sideways it it forced back to the center so air trying to go around the radiator has to fight both the air coming flowing rearward and the air going sideways.

I would not suggest making your bumper opening smaller but is it possible to mount flat plates to the sides of your intercoolers to make that surface wider so that your deflections shields get wider as they go rearward. Your photo above showed your deflection shields getting narrower as they go rearward.

Does this make any sense at all? I have a very difficult time explaining things like this.
I have no proof this will help at all, it could only help when the car is moving, when you are idling in traffic the angle of the deflection shields will not help at all.

I'll try to do some ASC art to clarify

Trevor's air deflectors
...../
.../--B
R----B
R----B
R----B
R----B
...\--B
....\

Theoretical air deflector that MIGHT help
..|-\
..|--B
R----B
R----B
R----B
R----B
..|--B
..|-/

I am trying to show that the Radiator(shown by R's) and the Bumper (showed by B's) can stay the same size but the shape of the air deflectors can be changed to force more air to go through the radiator, theoretically

EDIT: Clear as mud, I will have to make real pictures or delete this post so i don't look like an idiot.