Wow they actually went with this cooling board idea Now my question, how hard is it to install a transmission cooler? How about an oil cooler? What are some benefits or drawbacks about having these?

 

I installed my B&M tranny cooler in about an hour. I couldn't find a place to run any oil cooler lines at all without running them near steering linkages or suspension parts. I was told that the oil will be close to the water temp anyway and a cooler isn't really required.

 

I installed an engine oil cooler kit I bought from Chevy on a pick up this was a nice kit that had pre fabbed hard lines to fit an SBC with all the brackets clamps and hardware. It comes with a 180* thermostat adapter which fits on the filter pad. It was in the GM high perf parts book for Chevy trucks but should be adaptable to our cars. i'm going to buy one for mine. I have the oil cooler option on my Z but I can't see how this water circulating through the filter adapter can do much, hot water cooling hot oil seems like an oil to air exchanger would be more effective than oil to water. You could remove the factory cooler and install this kit and probably run cooler

 

Well, I modified my oil cooler sandwich adapter (the part that replaces my stock KC4 oil cooler) to put the temp sensor in. In 105 degree heat with the engine temp at 210, the oil temp was 212. This is about where the temp is on my VW which is totally oil cooled, so I'm not worried about it too much. I will look into that GM Perf Parts kit, though.

The water circulating through the adapter warms up the oil when the engine is cold and keeps it at coolant temp while warm. I do notice that the oil is taking forever to heat up when the car is cold, and the resulting high oil pressure is making it shoot out onto the block somewhere (I can smell it.) But once the oil temp gets over 150, I don't smell it anymore. Guess I'll just let my car idle a little longer in the morning.

 

I've never checked my oil temp but considering the small quantity and the fact that it doesn't circulate through a heat exchanger at all and it is totally internal to the engine I would think that it would heat up faster than the coolant. Oil is the first line of cooling defense in any internal combustion engine. Any more opinions from those more experienced than me on this topic? Cooling is paramount to most of the folks driving F-bodies. Interesting though.

 

If you do a lot of city driving with a lot of stop and go, then installing a tranny cooler is a great idea. It will save the tranny.

 

adding a cooler is the best thing you can do for your tranny.i'm using b&ms' biggest.i was going to add a gauge which i have ,to see at what temp its running. one of these days