<VV> external oil cooler
Bryan Blackwell
bryan at skiblack.com
Sun Apr 6 21:53:38 EDT 2008
Although the '66 up condenser isn't mounted directly above the
engine, it *is* mounted in the inlet, so the air that cools the A/C
then passes through the engine, just like the earlier ones. In fact,
the later setup does a much better job of ensuring *all* the air goes
through the condenser.
While I'll agree that the cooling system is not capable of handling
the engine at full throttle non-stop on anything besides an 80, it is
perfectly adequate to cool the engine powering a Corvair car (the FCs
are a different matter) under normal circumstances in most of the
U.S. - I'd like to know where the idea that it isn't comes from. The
small amount of heat added by an oil cooler is quite small and isn't
going to make much difference to the overall temp of the engine, but
the effect of having cool oil is tremendous.
Having said that, good oil and a good stock cooler should be
sufficient for a Corvair. It's worth asking what problem we are
fixing by adding the cooler in the first place.
--Bryan
On Apr 6, 2008, at 4:40 PM, ScottyGrover at aol.com wrote:
> I wouldn't mount the thing above the fan; the air passing through
> the oil
> cooler heats up, THEN has to go through the cooling system, which is
> overstressed for anything more then flat-country driving. Perhaps
> those living in
> Florida or the Netherlands could cope with this, but when you have
> any hills to
> contend with, the heating system becomes seriously overloaded; if
> you drive in
> other places in Europe than the Low Countries, you might regret it.
> The factory mounted the air conditioning condenser above the fan,
> at least
> on the '65 models; moved it elsewhere for the '66 model year.
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