Oil cooler
Has any one installed remote oil cooler in their Boxster. If you have was it a kit. Where is it located? Where was it purchased
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I think one of the biggest problems with a remote oil cooler in a Boxster is the positioning.
There's not a lot of room anywhere in the engine bay and fitting the cooler at the front of the car near the radiators would drop the oil pressure too low for the engine to survive. On our ROW cars without the secondary air injection pump there is a little more room, but not enough to lower the oil temps significantly to make it a viable proposition. Porsche must have got the idea of installing the original oil / water heat transfer unit because there wasn't anywhere else to put a cooler without major mods to bodywork or major components. |
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Could there be any value boxing and insulating the oil cooler and ducking in outside air
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Thanks I've been under the car for the last 3 day trying to see where or if one could be installed. I've pretty much came to the same conclusion. Is there any difference in the 996/997 and the Boxster S. engine mounted heat exchanger cooler.
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I swapped out my Muffler for a Borla Sport exhaust.
I'm thinking there might be room on both sides near the cats for a oil cooler and a tranny cooler. I've considered two smaller ones that air cooled with "PC" fans. I might delete the cats and that might free up some space as well There might be some space now between the tranny and the exhaust tips. Don't really love any of that space due to proximity to the exhaust and the residual heat from that area. It does keep oil lines to a minimum I've also considered some modification to a rear decklid mount or fixed spoiler with an oil cooler built in, but the plumbing gets longer and trickier. Mike |
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http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/...comparison.jpg The larger oil cooler is one of the best $200 you can spend as it make a major difference in oil temps as well as life. The larger cooler will just clear the intake manifold on 986's, but not all of the 987's. |
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