The surface of the oil cooler where the oil filter gasket seals has collapsed inward where there is no vertical support (the oil passage channels pass into the heat exchanger area). This is probably due to overtorquing the oil filter in combination with a poor design that eliminated the vertical support. I spent a few hours yesturday removing the oil cooler from the engine, screwing the oil filter directly onto the engine and connecting the antifeeze coolant lines that went to the oil cooler.
My question is what benefit does the oil cooler have? This cooler uses engine temperature water to cool the oil to around 190 F at its most. What temp does the engine oil normally run under non stress conditions? What about oil temps during conditions where the engine is under boost conditions? At normal highway speeds the engine runs on the vaccume side of the boost guage and doesn't normally run under constant boost until largely illegal speeds are attained. This, I expect is where the oil cooler my give more of a benefit from the extra heat produced from the power produced by the supercharger.
Any Techies have ideas on the true benefits of oil cooler???
My question is what benefit does the oil cooler have? This cooler uses engine temperature water to cool the oil to around 190 F at its most. What temp does the engine oil normally run under non stress conditions? What about oil temps during conditions where the engine is under boost conditions? At normal highway speeds the engine runs on the vaccume side of the boost guage and doesn't normally run under constant boost until largely illegal speeds are attained. This, I expect is where the oil cooler my give more of a benefit from the extra heat produced from the power produced by the supercharger.
Any Techies have ideas on the true benefits of oil cooler???