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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
I really can’t imagine the factory cooler being sufficient to cool oil in hot-day, heavy-driving applications or for serious track applications. As CSG Mike said, there is just not enough surface area. It would be like wearing a plastic track suit on a 95 degree day when running and holding an ice cold water bottle in your hands and expecting to feel cooled down enough to continue your run.
Ive already installed the factory oil cooler, and I believe it does help to get my oil up to temp and in control for my aggressive NA driving, but I will be getting this setup when I install the Harrop SC. I like that it upgrades the radiator and adds water to air oil cooling in a simple package.
My desire to leave the factory oil cooler in place is to have that extra oil warming and so there is one less thing to remove and sell at a loss. If they both can fit then I would like to keep them both.
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Something like this would be nice. I did see that someone on here retrofitted a WRX A2O cooler with the Forester cooler, but it wasn't thermostatic. Which kind of defeats the purpose. But this cooler would be nicely pair with the Forester.