Pretty common solution across the board that can handle track duty.
This is what the Edelbrock guys I have come across run. Note that there's not enough room to put any insulation, even a foil between the header and sump, I've tried several brands. I even considered remote mounting the oil cooler at the rear of the car with a fan and ducting in the trunk but the pressure drop from line loss (so now you need an oil scavenger pump too?) becomes excessive and the engine already has oil supply problems at peak HP so that was out.
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I COULD have removed the windshields wiper fluid tank on the left side and used that space but for a daily driver that was out for obvious reasons, windshields get dirty and I use the fluid frequently.Īfter an exhaustive search for solutions the oil/water cooler was all that was left. Since the water pump for the SC cooling system is mounted in the cavity behind the right side running light that alternate location for an oil cooling radiator is taken up too.
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I HAD a 'real' oil cooler on the car mounted in front of the radiator but when you install an Edelbrock supercharger the radiator for it goes in front of everything else and they recommend that no oil cooler be put in front of that. I don't really notice the flimsiness unless I check for it. You do need to cut away quite a bit of the hood bracing to make it fit. What about the Verus vents did you not like? I run the Driveway Labs GT hood duct and am quite happy with it. Put a real oil cooler on your car if you are tracking it and driving it hard. This is the last time I try this picture posting, too much trouble click on the 'Posts' on the menu and then the picture that shows up takes you to the gallery. Then click on the green ball with a 'P' on the middle right side and it'll show a menu. resized them to less than 1300 pixels wide, then uploaded them to Imgur so I could get the URL's but nothing worked to get the pictures to show, sigh. Update: I worked for FOUR hours trying to post the pictures. I did have to cut some of the braces but I then fabricated some 'dropped' braces to fit under the new hood vent to regain the lost strength. I ran across the Ford Shelby Cobra GT500 Heat Extractor hood vent and thought "AAh, that's an elegant solution!" Able to be positioned in the optimum low pressure zone on the hood and big enough to vent heat and pressure yet fairly good looking too. (I guess I'll sell them).Įxploring all the other possibilities including a new CF Sebon VS style hood - although that was just too much money for something that might not work effectively. I bought the Verus Engineering Hood Louver Kit, 'small' with rain guards but when it got here it didn't satisfy me.
So I looked at all the hood vents offered by the 86/FR-S/BRZ parts suppliers and wasn't very impressed. You can see the hood flex up as that pressure enters the radiator and goes into the engine compartment! it's like running into an invisible air wall! I also have a Subaru oil/water oil cooler done as per this thread: Īnd it helps but I also wanted to reduce the engine compartment temperature too.įinally, I wanted to reduce the hood lift that happens when your doing high speed and an oncoming semi's (it's doing 70 or 80) pressure wave strikes you head on. I've also got an Inovate Oil Temp/Oil Pressure dual gauge mounted in a pod on the dash too for double reliability (you can see the pod in some of the pictures). Note that I am not just guessing, I have constant engine monitoring by ECUtek's ECU-Connect plugged into my OBD2 port and have an old Nexus phone on the dash showing me all the important parameters while I'm driving.
and the problem I have had is the pipes for the header are about 0.050 from the oil pan causing heat soak and during hard track driving or long duration highway driving (in West Texas it's not uncommon to be doing 85+ for over an hour ) the oil temp gets VERY hot even though the engine water temp is "normal". I've got an Edelbrock E-force Supercharger on top of my 2016 BRZ engine (putting out 280 WHP on a 90 degree day which makes the BRZ 'JUST RIGHT' as a daily driver and track car) and going out of the engine is a FT86Speedfactory UEL catted header.
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