Oil Cooler, Oil Temps

[dori34]

Hks thermostats are about the same price as the mocal one but that is just thermostat only, mocal gear looks pretty good. Where do you guys buy your mocal sandwhich plates from? Will rather get this next time if my hks thermostat ever does fail.

[gotRICE?]

I got mine from here.

http://www.racerpart...gory/Oil_System

Good to deal with, although im not sure on their international shipping, as i bought it and had it delivered to a US address when i was there a couple years back and bought it back in check luggage My bag was opened 4 times on the way back. I guess a cooler core,8ft of braided hose, 4x fittings and the sandwich plate looked suspicious scattered through my bag

They do a prettyer version of earls remote thermo that i was going to add at a later date, but never got round to it.

Edited January 19, 2012 by gotRICE?

[Tony de Wonderful]

Hks thermostats are about the same price as the mocal one but that is just thermostat only, mocal gear looks pretty good. Where do you guys buy your mocal sandwhich plates from? Will rather get this next time if my hks thermostat ever does fail.

Eghey from the states.

I have a mocal oil cooler too, it is pretty fine quality, night and day to the chinese oil cooler I also owned.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

I got an inline mocal one on order.

If it breaks my engine I'll blame you lot.

And why would it break? The oil still flows, just not through the core. Always best to have a gauge as well. Oil up to 130 degrees is still fine, better than have 50 degree oil shooting back into your bearings.

[GT-T 1998]

lets say if you have enough time to start the car n let it sit for 5-10mins b4 driving would that be ok to not use a thermostatic oil cooler

[GTSBoy]

No, because it will run cold as soon as you're moving.

[KiwiRS4T]

Your engine will warm up a lot quicker driving it rather than letting it idle. Get a thermostat for your oil cooler.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

lets say if you have enough time to start the car n let it sit for 5-10mins b4 driving would that be ok to not use a thermostatic oil cooler

Not true, oil will take ages to warm up stationary... and once are moving, watch the oil temps drop...

seeing people run oil coolers without thermostats are just so silly, especially on RB20DETs as they don't have that oil/water heat exchanger crap on the oil filter housing

[blk94r33]

Lol @ the thermostat comments.

A water thermostat is a different story, as it is inline to the top hose and physically blocks flow until it gets up to temperature.

Oil thermostat is different, worse case is it diverts all to oil back to the motor without cooling it, or all through the cooler. It doesn't block oil to the engine.

Looking at the Greddy item in my hand (awaiting fitting), the cooler is open to oil flow when the thermostat is "open", then diverts full flow to the cooler when the thermostat is fully "closed". So no over or under cooling, no gluggy non-moving oil, and a quick warm-up.