[Shotimes] Re: synthetic oil and oil pressure and race fuel

[Ian Fisher]

Would running the SHO PS cooler as a oil cooler be
effective? It's pretty small but it may do the trick.

If I remote mount my filter(s), the lines would
already be there.

I'm coming to the realization that I should probably
put the battery in the trunk if I'm going to have all
of this extra stuff in the engine bay.

Ian


--- Zach Leahy <leahyz@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think,and remind I think I am not positive, that
> cooling wateri n
> order to coolt he oil better is probably not as
> effective as just
> cooling the oil in the forst place.
> 
> Physics tells me there is loss in each step, so I
> plan to keep it
> simple and cool the oil by the air.  Otherwise you
> are cooling water
> which in turn cools the oil.  Seems like one more
> step and one more
> loss in the transfer.  My thought is that a
> liquid/air cooler can
> probably reject a certain amount of heat from a
> certain sized cooler,
> based on the same temp of liquid (and we're close
> enough to call them
> about the same in this case).  More cooler and the
> temp drop is
> higher, less cooler size and there is less change in
> the temp.  Yes
> there are specific heat issues at hand, but with
> fluid in motion I
> don't think it's as big of a change.
> 
> So my theory is to keep is simple and cool the fluid
> I want cooled directly.
> 
> Z
> 
> On 7/29/05, Paul Nimz <pnimz@v8sho.com> wrote:
> > So why not cool the coolant before it goes through
> the oil/water cooler?
> >  
> >  
> > Paul
> >  
> >  On 7/29/2005 7:51:48 AM, Zach Leahy
> (leahyz@gmail.com) wrote:
> > > Not sur eon the original post, but I am running
> an external air/oil
> > > cooler in addition to a remote filter.  After
> all the lines are added,
> > > and the cooler and FL1A filter, the capacity is
> 7.5qts!  That alone is
> > > really nice.
> > > 
> > > Running with Mobil 1 5W30 at the track I saw oil
> temps standing right
> > > at 250 F.  Water temps were not quite as high,
> about 20 degrees
> > > behind.  While the oil/water cooler is more
> effective than the oil air
> > > as you mentioned it has limitations, and it also
> only works when the
> > > oil temp is lower than the water.  around town
> idling (stuck in
> > > traffic jam) the water temp can exceed the oil
> temp, and then your
> > > oil/water cooler is actually heating up the oil.
> > > 
> > > The external oil/air cooler makes a difference,
> albeit not huge, but
> > > it's not a huge cooler either.  It fits nicely
> (with some rigging and
> > > hole saw work) right behind the Ford oval on the
> front.  (mine does,
> > > any bigger and it won't.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The drop in oil temp has not been
> unrealistically huge, but it helps
> > > some.  I am measuring my oil temp in the pan,
> near the exhaust, so I
> > > may have slightly higher numbers due to exhaust
> and catalyst heat
> > > bleeding over.  Hard to say exac
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