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Old 05-20-2011, 04:40 PM
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i had an oil cooler on the front shoot craps, started leaking, luckily it was not pressurized oil into the engine but scavenge oil, don't know why, never did find out.

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I have a mocal oil cooler that I am going to fit in either the engine pressure side or the scavenge side of my oil system, and use a Canton thermostat so the cold oil pressure wave at startup goes into the block and not destroy the oil cooler.
ant, could you explain the cold oil pressure wave? my dry sump would run 230 deg with 12 qts oil and no oil cooler street driving scavenge oil going directly into the tank, with cooler it was about 150 deg. driving around normally, will have to make a shield.
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