How was it mounted? Did it have anything to do with the oil filter
and mount? I really don't need any additional oil cooling, but I was
thinking of adding a small exchanger due to another new gizmo I
installed.
As I am using an EWP for coolant, I've
experienced an issue that won't effect most of you down in the banana belt.
During long descents in the winter, the automatic controller slows the
coolant flow down in an effort to maintain engine temp, this low flow
results in not enough flow through my heater core and it gets damn cold in a
real hurry. This wouldn't be a big deal, except that normally it's toasty
warm in the cabin in all weather, so I don't need to dress in a heavy
jacket. I can override the automatic controller or even switch on the backup
EWP to maintain coolant flow, but then the engine will cool off completely
and eventually it will still begin to blow cold air through the heater core.
To resolve this issue I bought an EBP (electric booster pump) from Leon
(Davies Craig). This is a very cute little pump that fits very nicely in my
heater line and allows me to maintain heat while the EWP is at it's minimum
flow setting. It also adds a little extra coolant circulation through the
block with out excessively cooling the engine. This brings me to my new
opportunity...
I keep thinking about the possibility of a small heat
exchanger in this location as plumbing would be simple since I have the oil
lines coming from the cooler and remote filter in close proximity. This
would allow a small amount of heat transfer as a sort of heat balance. I've
noticed that oil takes longer to heat up than the coolant, but cools off
much slower as well due to it's lower thermal conductivity. This really
isn't a problem, but an exchanger would balance this. This pump
would also allow a small amount of coolant heat rejection in the incredibly
unlikely event of both EWP's failing. Really I'm just considering adding
extra weight to address a problem that I don't even have just to take
advantage of an opportunity. But that's what tinkerer's do I guess.... (like
I don't have enough to do already?)
Todd
Worked in their application, would need some
testing in ours, I'd think. They had some major cooling problems without
this gizmo though, as I understand it.
Jack