Rusty,
My oil cooler "diffuser" is almost identical to yours except mine tapers to
zero distance from core at back end. Extensive wind tunnel tests
(squirting compressed air nozzle at inlet and feeling where air came out
of oil cooler) showed that most of it was at the back end (no big
surprise). Already been some better permanent solutions suggested
here but as a quick fix I put a piece of ridge vent material (very porous
fiber stuff used to vent roofs) at the back end to equalize the flow
through the core. Not a great solution but did show measurable
improvement.
Your installation is really looking pretty good in the picture you
posted. Only thing I would suggest is to carefully measure the
pressure drop through the scat duct to throttle body. Possibly
even worse than the pressure drop is the heat the air picks up going through
that thing (at least that's my theory). I was flabbergasted at the
improvement I got when I eliminated the scat. Mine was a bit longer
than yours so the penalty may not be that much in your installation. Worth
keeping in mind though.
Tracy (suffering flying withdrawal, runway predicted to be dry enough
for takeoff by fly-in time next weekend)