YES!!!
That's what it takes. Cool parts last longer.
Just look at Nascar cars on the big tracks, the rear windows have 3-4 NACA ducts on each side. Cooling and ducting for brakes, rear diff, transmission, and everything else.
I think it was Full Blown that blew a 4th gear at around 600+ whp, but that was on the dyno. At high temps, that same gear would probably blow at under 400whp.
I raced the 24 hours of Lemons, and saw many cars drop out at the end from heat, mainly blown diffs and gearboxes. I saw a cooler made from junkyard parts, driven off the driveshaft, that worked brilliantly.
Even a simple system using tapped fill and drain plugs with a cooler and pump can drastically lower the trans temps.
Elaborate race cooling systems have internal spray bars that spray the fluid directly where it's supposed to go, but a simple system would cost a couple hundred bucks and keep Element Tuning's trans in one piece I bet.
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Originally Posted by cdrazic93
soooooo many coolers  |