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Originally Posted by mike the snake
What kind of pressure drop are you talking about?
Elemen Tuning uses an oil cooler along with other mods to keep the temps down, which helps keep his oil pressures UP.
I just bought an oil cooler that I want to mount in the passenger side driving light area (removing the light) which is about as far away from the oil filter and sandwich plate as you can get. I'm wondering what kind of pressure losses I can expect.
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From everything I've read from Phil at Element Tuning and others, while you may in theory lose some pressure due to the extra distance oil travels out to the oil cooler you will more than make up for the pressure difference by having thicker, cooler oil, especially on track.
What I mean by this is say that we have two cars, one with an radiator based oil cooler and one without. If the oil temps in both cars are the same the car with the oil cooler will probably have slightly less pressure than the one without due to the longer distance the oil has to travel. However, on the track the car without the oil cooler will run much hotter (I've seen over 50F difference in my own testing) and will end up having significantly less pressure than the car with a cooler due to the hotter oil being thinner.