Hey guys, on my '90 RS project I have the two ports above the oil filter thats supposed to be hooked up to an oil cooler. Im not planning on running a cooler and time soon so I was told I could cap them off. Is there a good way of doing this? Is there any pressure that would build up, only option i could think of would be welding them shut. Heres a pic to show what im talking about.
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Thanks!

 

You could just bypass the filter and route it in one and to the other. No worrys that way, and you could get all the parts from autozone for like $8.

That and your pic came up as NWS.

 

Remove the filter, unscrew and remove the adapter, put filter back on.

 

Sounds simple enough thanks

 

Those ports would have coolant going through them if they were , not oil. You could just ignore them, but it would be better to just remove it.

 

I thought Oil Coolers were a good thing? Why remove it?

 

really? does not the oil go through the cooler?

 

No, the oil stays in the adapter and coolant circulates around it.

 

oh, is that the stock setup that come on these cars?

 

Yes

 

Does that apply for after market oil coolers as well or just the ones that came from the factory?

 

Just the factory ones. Aftermarket setups usually route the oil to a cooler.

 

is there any dangers inperticular with doing this? (more oil needed?) (oil pump loosing pressure?)

 

It would very slightly increase the oil capacity, but not by all that much. If you use too small of a hose then you can see a pressure drop, but I've run 3/8" hose to and from the cooler and still had 40 PSI at the top of the block.

 

After installing the oil cooler have you noticed a diffrence in motor temp?

while crusing? draging? and that horrible traffic

 

Not so much in coolant temperature, but it keeps the oil temperature quite a bit cooler.

 

Apeiron thanks for the info and your time

 

quick question. I've heard that its possible to use the "second" mini radiator as an oil coolant? (the one the air conditioning hooks up to, I forgot the name). Is this true or salesman bs? Thanks

 

You could use the AC condensor as a transmission cooler but there's no way to get anything to pump through the oil cooler without the water pump. I installed my cooler lines when I did the swap into my 1991 RS. I don't know how much it helped but I figured "hey it's there and they probably had a reason for it" so I ran the hoses for it and called it a day.