Thermostat For Grex Oil Filter W/relocation Kit

[KiwiRS4T]

I have the Earls thermostat - solid piece of gear and lots of ports for sensors - I paid a lot more than $100 so that looks like a good price.

[No Crust Racing]

I actually thought about that, and the pic is deceiving in that way.

If you were looking from side on, as in from the quarter panel side, the core is actually angled down and away from the cooler piping, so it sits behind it quite notably. So I was comfortable enough with the idea that the air flow over the pipe and core would not allow the heat to soak forward into the piping.

Hence the venting to ensure we had good flow across the core, plus the bonus of it going over the IC piping also.

If you know S13 front ends, and take note of where the brackets are, you can see the top bracket sits behind the headlight, but the bottom bracket is attached to part of the chassis rail. The two mounting points are offset to each other by about 25 degrees so the whole thing sits on an angle sloping towards the rear of the car from top to bottom, behind the IC piping, albeit off to the side of it anyway.

Though I don't have any inlet air temp sensor to confirm, I've never noticed it suffer from heat soak and lose power in the same way that I have felt that happen with an un-shielded pod sitting in traffic on a hot summers day then trying to boot it. If there's any difference, at all from before and after, I would say it's negligible at best - especially at track speeds with so much air flowing over the whole setup.

Edit: Just to add, the washer bottle seen in the core mounting pic is also now gone for better flow out of the inner guard area.

Edited January 25, 2012 by ActionDan