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Thanks for all the links,
comments, etc. I'll have to look through these more when I get time, but a
few general comments:
The pre-made finned
aluminum heat sinks do appear to be heavy. I'm afraid the weight of
the pan will exceed the weight of an oil cooler, but if you could eliminate the
oil cooler, then it would possibly save some ducting and mounting
work.
I like the neat pan
that Paul Conner had, but wonder about the weight
vs performance. I do think that fins will need to be inside and out,
which just makes the weight that much worse. On the other hand, you could
use .063 material for the actual pan, then weld even thinner fins on it.
It would be pretty labor intensive, but at least my welds wouldn't have to hold
oil. When it comes to AL welding, I still
suck.
The corrugated heat
sink was neat, and I had already tried to figure out a way to make that
work. I do have some of the miracle brazing compound that Ed found,
and that would be perfect for joining the folded heat sink to the inside and out
of the pan. This may actually be the leading candidate at the
moment.
Finally, the tubes through
the pan idea is something I had also thought about, but... (see previous welding
comment). I wouldn't personally consider doing it in epoxy, but it would
be less likely to leak :-)
Thanks
again,
Rusty (my beer's
empty)
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