Remote oil filter kit - Keep or Ditch factory cooler

[tom04841]

I have a remote oil filter. Should i just cap off the coolant lines to the factory cooler and run an external cooler or run the external in addition to the factory cooler?

Keep in mind that there is nothing wrong with the factory cooler.

 

[Defiant]

Air or water? Water-fed oil coolers are also oil warmers. If you're on the street, keep whatever cooler you have.

 

[tom04841]

Air. The car as of right now is my DD, but I only drive it 5 miles a day. I do go to the track evry once in a while. Next year, I will be going evrey weekend.

I was thinking about installing the air oil cooler like this (please pardon the cheesy diagram):

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[86Irocz]

I have a remote oil filter. Should i just cap off the coolant lines to the factory cooler and run an external cooler or run the external in addition to the factory cooler?

Keep in mind that there is nothing wrong with the factory cooler.

Is this the factory oil cooler that came on 90s? And I would NEVER suggest capping off oil or water lines because of the fact that you may stop oil or coolant flow. Many times these are flow passages and are in the general flow of ALL of the fluid. IE in a 90 oil cooler, if something happens to the oil lines and you cap off the oil feed to the cooler and the oil return from the cooler, you are blocking oil flow to the rest of the engine. You would need to run a connector line of some sort, just to keep flow moving.

 

[DirtyBirdRacing]

Is this the factory oil cooler that came on 90s? And I would NEVER suggest capping off oil or water lines because of the fact that you may stop oil or coolant flow. Many times these are flow passages and are in the general flow of ALL of the fluid. IE in a 90 oil cooler, if something happens to the oil lines and you cap off the oil feed to the cooler and the oil return from the cooler, you are blocking oil flow to the rest of the engine. You would need to run a connector line of some sort, just to keep flow moving.

I believe that between the outlet and inlet from the housing for the oil cooler there is a oil thermostat that allows oil to go to the engine before it has warmed up. If you plug the oil cooler lines you must also take out this thermostat and plug it as well. I'm not sure if this is for all year DSM's but I saw a thread on it not that long ago. Maybe you could try to search for it.

Bill

 

[keanu]

Tom,how long I most waiting?

 

[DSM90AWD]

Rember that oil needs to reach a certain temperature to boil off water and other contaminants and to reach the proper viscosity level (hence why the '90 housings have a thermostat). There are aftermarket coolers that have a thermostat built in, but as mentioned above, care must be taken in the plumbing to ensure oil constantly flows thru the filter/engine under all circumstances