Oil Cooler

Here's some pics of my oil cooler efforts,
While the engines an LS3, its fitted with an LS1 front sump.
The oil cooler aux ports are located above the filter.
Improved Racing make an oil cooler adapter to fit the front sump when using Holden accessories.

Improved Racing make this oil cooler adapter block for the LS1 Front Sump, Part Number
IR-EGM-1007.

Comes with 2 additionl 1/8"npt accessory ports for oil temp or pressure switches.






The -8AN Black Braided Hoses flow up over the steering rack and into a Mocal Oil Cooler Thermostat.

The thermostat cycles the oil back to the filter block when the oil temp is below engine temp requirements and opens to allow flow to Oil cooler when temp reaches 82 deg Celsius, (180F)





The oil cooler thermostat is fitted on the LH Suspension chassis frame.
Mocal Part Number A0T2 -8AN.

Exiting the thermostat is 1/2" aluminium tubing shaped to fit the chassis.






The oil cooler feed tube converts to a Black Braided Flex Hose and Black anodized Aeroflow -8AN fittings to a Mocal 16 Row oil cooler.

The alloy tube is bent to clearance around the side of the radiator.







The Oil Cooler Return line exits to the drivers side  of the chassis and converts back to alloy hard line and parallel with the brake tube sharing chassis mounts back across to the passenger side mounted thermostat.







Oil Cooler mounting in progress.

Still need to make insulators for the brake and oil cooler hard lines where they are chassis mounted.








This is the underside of the oil cooler with my Home made CNC mounting bracket.

The louvres are so debris doesn't get trapped between the oil cooler rear and the chassis.

Next step is to make up the upper Oil Cooler Mount and shroud.