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Greetings,
I spent about half a day
measuring my potential space for a real oil cooler, along with removing the
plumbing from the heat exchangers in the radiator. Once I got the lines
off, I was able to look down into the port, and could see just how useless the
heat exchangers are. This link shows a picture of the "cool tube" that
Howe sells for running lines: http://www.howeracing.com/Radiators/Index-Coolers-CoolTube.htm
Imagine this tube turned inside out, so the inside has the fins, and the outside
is smooth. Best I can tell, the oil runs through the middle, and that's
about it. Utter crap. All I was doing was making the oil dizzy
having to run through both of these :-)
I looked at the space
available, and can't fit the stock Mazda cooler anywhere easily. I should
be able to go with the Setrab cooler pretty easily though. Now that I've
done some measuring of the stock cooler, and since it's made much the same way
as the Setrab, I should be able to figure out how the size of the stock
unit compares to various Setrab sizes. I'll shoot for something a
little bigger than the stock Mazda unit, and give it a shot.
Cheers,
Rusty
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