[Healeys] Oil Cooler?

[WILLIAM B LAWRENCE]

For a car gently used used in a temperate climate I think your number 4 is the correct answer.

With a cooling system in good condition these cars usually don't need an oil cooler even in the southwest USA.

If it's a vintage part there may be a racing enthusiast that might pay well for it.

Bill Lawrence
BN1 #554
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From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com <simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 11:35 PM
To: Healeys
Subject: [Healeys] Oil Cooler?


My nephew’s BJ8 came with a boot full of mixed blessings from its PO. Amongst all the manuals and stuff were two boxes containing an oil cooler and mounting kit. NOS.(Actually, these items dated back quite a while…2 or 3 POs back).

So, he gave them to me as he wasn’t remotely interested in fitting them. I took them back to the UK and determined that I might fit the cooler “one day”. Well, as the car is up on a stand with the radiator out, it seems that the day may have arrived. Minimal amount of work compared to having to do it from scratch? Now:-

  1.  For someone who lives in a temperate climate and who seldom goes all that fast in his Healey, how much benefit is there in a cooler?
  2.  The Denis Welch brackets look pretty good. Fit onto the lower radiator mounts. Designed for their cooler but I think mine can be shoehorned in.

Has anyone tried these brackets?

How easy/hard to fit?

  1.  I will not be cutting any holes. The cooler would sit in front of the radiator in line with the lower mounts.

Is it a waste of time to put the cooler in there without a dedicated hole?

Will I gain as much heat by blocking some airflow to the radiator as I lose with the cooler?

  1.  Seems like an oil cooler may just be a waste of effort???



Any thoughts?

Simon




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