Oil cooler ideas

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Soon installing a rebuilt 7M-GTE engine with upgraded oil pump and pipe.

- I want to ditch the pressure-regulated oil cooler system
- Engine/turbo is stock
- I want to have a thermostat-controlled oil cooler large enough to keep oil temperatures reasonable for sustained high-speed (German Autobahn) driving
- Longevity is important
- I would like to keep the cooler in the stock location or close.
- I would like something that looks "close to stock"

My plan is to remove the original setup and use a sandwich plate with a built-in thermostat. Would like to keep the filter on the engine and not remote. A local hydraulics shop will make the hoses as long as the plate and the cooler uses industry standard couplings.

Which size cooler would make sense? Any recommendations for specific coolers or sandwich plates? Any other recommendations/do's/don'ts?

 

[supraguy@aol]

The problem with keeping the oil filter on the side of the block is access. The factory unit turns the filter 90 degrees, to make access possible with the turbo/ hose, etc all in the way. Putting a sandwich on the block, then the filter, may cause access issues. I used the canton remote adapter, and routed the lines to a Greddy filter relocator, and the oil cooler lines ran from there. You want an AN10 or AN12 oil cooler and lines. I used AN10. A cooler like the one picture, will allow you to bolt it to the front crash bar, in front of the intercooler, and will not be very conspicuous.