Anyone ever add a cooler to an oil cooled blower?
09-13-2008, 04:58 PM
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Anyone ever add a cooler to an oil cooled blower?
Thinking of adding an oil cooler to my vortech supercharger.... should be pretty simple right? Anyone ever try this? Hear about, have experience with it?
09-13-2008, 07:40 PM
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I have not done it but I have seen them before. I was reading the other day that one company recommends them on there customers turbo cars. I was thinking about putting one on our turbo car as well it should help cooler oil may take some temp. out of it. I love you do it and let me know how it works LOL. do I get a second on that.
09-13-2008, 07:41 PM
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I have not done it but I have seen them before. I was reading the other day that one company recommends them on there customers turbo cars. I was thinking about putting one on our turbo car as well it should help cooler oil may take some temp. out of it. I vote you do it and let me know how it works LOL. do I get a second on that.
09-14-2008, 07:09 PM
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Oil coolers on turbos help two things which is the same reason for watercooling; they are practically required for long duration bursts or a constantly spooled turbo. Short duration bursts like drag racing or racing another car from a stoplight doesn't require one. The other situation it help is durability most people don't know how to treat a turbocharged car right, a big area of this is due to hot shutdowns instead of idling to let the turbo cool down. Oil coolers aswell as water cooled cartridges help in this aspect.
Oil coolers aren't required for centrifugal superchargers because they don't have a center cartridge attached to parts seeing 1600 degrees F.
Nonetheless, it may be a good idea to keep the oil cooler to prevent it from faster breakdown, but i'm not an expert on oil.
Oil coolers aren't required for centrifugal superchargers because they don't have a center cartridge attached to parts seeing 1600 degrees F.
Nonetheless, it may be a good idea to keep the oil cooler to prevent it from faster breakdown, but i'm not an expert on oil.
09-16-2008, 01:00 AM
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Oh i'm not saying it's a bad idea. It is a good idea, I was just stating why you generally don't see them on many supercharged cars; because it's not a huge help, but it does help somewhat, not just the s/c, the engine aswell.