Anyone using the oem sandwich style oil cooler? I have one laying around and am thinking of using it on the lsvtec thats going in my daily driver. How does it perform compared to a fin style oil cooler? Im just trying to keep oil temps as low as I can during highway trips in the summer

 

You'll need to also get the B18C/B16 coolant back pipe and thermostat housing to plumb the coolant though the cooler.

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I have those parts too( my turbo motor is a sleeved jdm b18c it caame with the block). I got a little bit of everything between my porch, basement, shed, and spare bedroom lol.

Just making sure that for all the extra coolant plumbing and few additional degrees of coolant temp it will yield a lower oil temp

 

If you have it, I would use it. Obviously make sure all your hoses and the seal on the sandwich is good. The more hoses and sealing interfaces the more chances of **** is gonna leak. So be careful and look them over, as it's hard to check/fix when da motor is in the car.

 

They aren't bad for NA use on the circuit, but found that oil temps didn't go down nearly as much as with a good Earls or Setrab Air-to-Air cooler if you plan to road race more than the street. (I've found almost 10 degrees cooler on an air-to-air vs. about 3-4 on the oil/water setup.) Mainly because of the additional heat the water increases on the circuit vs the street. For street use only, the oil/water will do its job, just don't wait to be impressed by it.

 

It prolongs the life of your motor 2 ways:

First off the coolant gets hotter much faster than your oil. It brings your oil up to temperature faster to reduce wear.

The second way is that it better maintains your oil temperature because your coolant will usually be around 180-200 degrees fahrenheit. So if oil is flowing into it at 220 degrees, it has something at least 20 degrees cooler around it to transfer heat into it.

The stock oil cooler is actually a pretty good design. I believe it is almost an 8 row packed into there. Your oil can be too cool, again causing wear. While this may be sufficient for a weekend warrior and keeping oil temps down, it's simply not enough on a dedicated track car. My personal plan is to keep the OEM oil cooler to bring the oil temperature up faster, but also use an external air to air oil cooler in junction with it.

 

This will be far from a track car, just my daily driver basically an lsvtec with pr3 pistons and itr cams. It will see some highway trips for a few hours at a clip pretty regularly during the summer, so I was just trying to help out oil temps as much as I can. I have the fan set to come on at a reasonably low temp and during the summer the coolant stays below 200f when driving so I don't mind trading a few degrees more coolant for a few less oil degrees