At 6:32 AM 1/13/95, R.M. Bownes III wrote:
>I did this on my race Spit. the oil/water cooler from a VW vanagon is a
>direct fit, but requires that you either make an adaptor/extender (on
>the Spit at least) from the (I think these sizes are right) 3/8" thread
>on your block to either a 3/8 for a Spit filter *or* a 1/2" thread for
>a larger filter. I then plumbed it in where the heater used to be.
>There is no reason you couldn't put it inline with the heater hoses.
>The problem is the source of these parts. Get one from a breakers yard
>as the part new from VW is $178.00 last I checked, but about $10 from a
>junkyard.
The NASCAR folks are starting to use these, so I expect that some sort of
adapter to fit "standard" filters will soon become very cheap.
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