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08-04-2019, 12:31 PM | #1 |
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Inexpensive Oil Coolers
I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on a Mishimoto and was on Amazon and noticed some other brands that were about a hundred bucks? Any experience with those? Why are they so damn cheap? A small radiator and some hoses and a few fittings. Where is the big difference?
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08-04-2019, 12:53 PM | #2 |
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Are you tracking your car? If not, look into the NED oil cooler or source the parts for the Forester XT kit. If you are tracking your car, I would not go cheap on an oil cooler. That's kinda like going cheap on your cars health insurance....
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Tracking. Wondering where all the extra money is in the 500.00 plus units?
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Good question, but like many things, the pieces make up the cost, but also name brand, R&D, and of course profit margin.
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Build your own with a setrab core and buy a thermostatic sandwich plate. For nice -8 or-10AN fittings, hoses, you'll be at $150. Sandwich plate probably $75. decent 19 row Setrab is about $200-$250.
If you want leaky -AN fittings, poor fitment and no brackets, go ahead and buy the eBay kits. You'd be surprised how easy it is to have oil leaking from an oil cooler fitting and while it pools up in the bumper, you won't notice until it spills over. If you spin a bearing from oil loss because you didn't notice a bad leak at the track, we'll be here. |
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10AN radiator of your choice. 10AN Fittings and Hoses/clamps High temp thread oil resistant thread sealant Can peice a solid one together for 250$ all in. Once you decide on mounting location you can go to hardware store to buy appropriate brackets to mount. You pay for name brand, mounting hardware to have direct bolt on for specific car and of course profit margins. |
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Name brand whores checking in 3....2....
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I wanted all the parts together. I didn't wanna spend my time ordering and measuring then redoing shit. If you want to do that, go for it.
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Can't buy the parts I wanted.
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...as if tracking and/or boosting this platform wasn't already problematic enough, go ahead and add more headaches by trying to piece together a kit and run into issues during installation. |
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They have a lot of offbrand/eBay ones for 35-40$ but I wouldn’t trust those.
Mocal is what most kits use 78$ https://www.maperformance.com/produc...SABEgJ2rPD_BwE I got mine from driftmotion for 90$ because i was lazy to source the two 10AN fittings, they sell with it. Although you do need an adapter/spacer that’ll increase cost like 50$ |
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