I was thinking of putting an oil cooler inline of the feed line for the turbo. Would this cause a loss in pressure that would affect the lubrication for the turbo? I figured the cooler the oil to the turbo the better. Would there be any reason on shouldnt mount it to the front or the back of the radiator?

 

Putting a cooler inline with the turbo feed is a bad idea, you won't get enough flow through it for it to substantially cool the engins oil. Put the cooler inline with a filter relocation kit, and keep the turbo oil feed separate.

 

any more oppinions?

 

if people run their boosted cars w/out oil coolers i dont see how having one would hurt, imo putting one on the oil feed line for the turbo would prob help keep the turbo a little cooler

 

the only problem i see is that it could potentially lower the oil tmemp beyond its operating range

 

I have an oil sandwich adapter whith two lines for an oil cooler that is mounted in front of the radiator. At the same time I have T-fitting on the oil cooler which supplies oil to my turbo oil feed line. This avoided me from having to run the oil feed from the black of the block, and instead I could have a much cleaner and shorter oil feed line which tees of from the oil cooler. The oil is cooled and filtered before ir reaches the turbo

 

I did my setup with my homemadeturbo setup using a tranny cooler. It's been running fine for me. I ran it from the oil sandwich plate to the cooler and than back to the turbo. When I feel the hose going to the cooler is HOT, but when I feel the hose going to the turbo is much COOLER. (wish I can tell what is the temp though)

Here is a pic of it.


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^^^ZIPTIES!!! lol...that's the way to do it son'. (I have zipties to hold my front mount as well as my radiator...lol... )

 

I would have to agree with the majority. If you are running a stock oil pump, do not run the turbo inline to the cooler. I beleive it could cause low pressure and premature wear ont he gears to the oil pump. IMHO.

 

What you need is a sandwich adapter. And no, don't run an oil cooler inline with the turbo oil feed. The turbo oil feed line is too small to run a good-sized oil cooler.