[Healeys] Oil Cooler?

[Bruce Steele]

That was me.  I added the Moss cooler and the air shovel, temp dropped 10 degrees.  I live in southern California.

 

Bruce Steele

Brea, CA

1960 BN7

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Michael Oritt
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 9:30 PM
To: simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com
Cc: Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Oil Cooler?

 

Simon--

 

I believe the ideal temperature range for oil is between 230 and 250 degrees so perhaps you should take your oil's temperature after a good run to see if an oil cooler is indicated.  There is such a thing as oil being too cool as one of the things we want to happen is for oil to get warm enough--above 212--to cook off any water that may have formed from condensation. 

 

Without a hole in the shroud I doubt that the oil cooler would do very much cooling though someone recently posted a picture of a sheet metal "shovel" that mounts just beneath the shroud to hopefully duct air up to an oil cooler.

 

Best--Michael Oritt

 

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 5:26 PM <simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com <mailto:simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com> > wrote:

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?

3.	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?

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

 

Any thoughts?

Simon

 

 

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