How was it mounted? Did it have anything to do
with the oil filter and mount? I really don't need any additional oil
cooling, but I was thinking of adding a small exchanger due to another
new gizmo I installed.
As I am using an EWP for coolant, I've
experienced an issue that won't effect most of you down in the banana
belt. During long descents in the winter, the automatic controller
slows the coolant flow down in an effort to maintain engine temp, this
low flow results in not enough flow through my heater core and it gets
damn cold in a real hurry. This wouldn't be a big deal, except that
normally it's toasty warm in the cabin in all weather, so I don't need
to dress in a heavy jacket. I can override the automatic controller or
even switch on the backup EWP to maintain coolant flow, but then the
engine will cool off completely and eventually it will still begin to
blow cold air through the heater core. To resolve this issue I bought
an EBP (electric booster pump) from Leon (Davies Craig). This is a very
cute little pump that fits very nicely in my heater line and allows me
to maintain heat while the EWP is at it's minimum flow setting. It also
adds a little extra coolant circulation through the block with out
excessively cooling the engine. This brings me to my new opportunity...
I keep thinking about the possibility of a small
heat exchanger in this location as plumbing would be simple since I
have the oil lines coming from the cooler and remote filter in close
proximity. This would allow a small amount of heat transfer as a sort
of heat balance. I've noticed that oil takes longer to heat up than the
coolant, but cools off much slower as well due to it's lower thermal
conductivity. This really isn't a problem, but an exchanger would
balance this. This pump would also allow a small amount of coolant heat
rejection in the incredibly unlikely event of both EWP's failing.
Really I'm just considering adding extra weight to address a problem
that I don't even have just to take advantage of an opportunity. But
that's what tinkerer's do I guess.... (like I don't have enough to do
already?)
Todd
Worked in their application, would
need some testing in ours, I'd think. They had some major cooling
problems without this gizmo though, as I understand it.
Jack