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Originally Posted by 86TOYO2k17
Assuming mounting the oil cooler behind the fog light doesn’t result in oil temps being too high.
What is the down side?
Wouldn’t it be all positive results?
Even if the benefits are small and minuscule it should still help the intercooler and or radiator not have it all so stacked up. I see no down side unless doing so resulted in too high of oil temps, which is highly dependent on car use and how exactly you set it up behind the fog light. Many ways to set up to make that a non issue. And that could also be a side benefit to purposefully restrict air flow to oil cooler to help allow faster warm up.
If cost and or difficulty of mounting an oil cooler behind fog light is a concern I would be more concerned with that individual aptitude for working on their car as it was one of the cheapest, simplest, and easiest mods I’ve done, no more difficult or expensive than mounting in front of radiator. So again I see zero down side unless it results in oil temps being too high, which it should not.
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Sure, a side mount oil cooler is fine, but if someone wanted to see a benefit then they might want to make sure airflow to the cooler is adequate to equal to a front mount and that the air has an escape path or pressure will just build. Of course a side mount setup will block an access area for the brake ducts or may push dirty air onto them. The bumper might need to be significantly modified to accommodate the cooler too. Expense will depend on the lengths the OP wants to go to make it a successful modification.
But this isn’t just an oil cooler dilemma: the intercooler is blocking the radiator still. Need to do a V-mount, except now the veins aren’t parallel to the air, so flow is mildly impeded. The larger the exchangers, the more aggressive the angle on the V-mount. So many dilemmas to consider for structural supports, cooler sizes, channeling the air, venting the air, etc.