What to do with the oil cooler ports>?

[AWDlaserRS]

Well my new 6 bolt is in my car now and it used to have an oil cooler on it when I pulled it from my parts car but I kinda destroyed it by accident... So anyways now I don't have an oil cooler and I was wondering if I could just plug the holes for the oil cooler on the oil filter assembly until i can get a new one or do they have to be able to flow from one to the other?? IM getting my clutch tomorow so I need an answer ASAP because I think I can have it driveable tomorow.

 

[Wobble]

prolly just loop the lines.. I.e. go buy 2 banjo fitting ends, and a small piece of high temp/pressure hose and make a line that goes from the out to the in... just like the oil cooler was hooked up..

 

[98TsiAWD]

Just buy a universal oil cooler for $30, then go to a hydraulic hose and rubber store and get fittings for the stock lines. Use the stock banjo bolts and 90 degree bend, then get the adapters threaded onto it.

 

[Wobble]

shop around too, i got my 90 oil cooler for 15 bux on e-bay... hehe

 

[AWDlaserRS]

Where can you get oil coolers for $30?

 

[JohnTSI]

Is it gonna be a street car or track car? If its not gonna be daily driven or put on long rd trips you can always swap it with a non turbo housing with no oil cooler.

 

[ITSME4G63]

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GET TEH MOST EXPENSIVE ONE YOU CAN!

 

[AWDlaserRS]

Is it gonna be a street car or track car? If its not gonna be daily driven or put on long rd trips you can always swap it with a non turbo housing with no oil cooler.

Yeah its going to be a street car and my daily driver. I do have a oil housing off my other
engine that dousn't have the oil cooler ports but I really dont feel like swapping them when I am this close to starting the engine for the first time. Ill probably just run a hose from one port to the other until I buy or find an oil cooler because if all goes as planned I may be able to start this thing tomorow.

 

[19Eclipse90]

Don't want to steal the thread, but I still have my oil cooler and the hoses that come from it were never connected to anything when I bought the car, and I looked through the repair manual and there is nothing about where they connect to. So do they connect to the housing where the oil filter is on the front? Then someone told me they were supposed to go to the transaxle, and I was like WTF??? they wouldn't even reach over there... Anyways, for right now they are ziptied to the frame inside the driver's fender. The car has been running for quite some time now with no problems, but I'd still like to get this figured out. Thanks guys.

 

[terefic181]

Here is how you can set one up.

Go to thread: http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123814

 

[19Eclipse90]

Hey terefic181 - I've already seen that RRE page and it doesn't help me with where the two factory oil lines connect to. I have a JDM motor swap in my car, so all this stuff is from a Galant 92ish... so I should be looking at the 91-94 Eclipse pics, except I don't know if the oil cooler is stock for the 90 model. Does that matter, or should there be similar fittings for this cooler?

On another note...

One is the return oil hose from the cooler to the filter housing and the other is the feed line from the filter housing to the cooler, right? If not, then they are both going through being cooled, but what purpose would there be for having two hoses that perform the same thing? Does one carry filtered and the other carries unfiltered?

HELP!!!
I'm so confused....

 

[terefic181]

The external oil cooler is stock for the '90 4G63 on the eclipse. They changed it on later years to a small, I believe water cooled version that is at the oil filter not in front of the radiator. I don't know for sure about the Galant configuration, but if you go back to the

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123814 link.

and go toward the bottom of the page to my post with the 4 pictures. Look where the one line is going into the oil pump area next to it is a hole. Where the line is going in and the hole next to it is open, is where your line in and line out ports are that feed and return oil from the oil cooler in front of the radiator on a '90 4G63 go.

Hope this helps ya,

 

[dsmayhem]

Could you use something like this?
http://www.jegs.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=1135&prmenbr=361

I think that one would be nice because in gridlock out here in AZ there would still be air cooling it.

 

[19Eclipse90]

The external oil cooler is stock for the '90 4G63 on the eclipse. They changed it on later years to a small, I believe water cooled version that is at the oil filter not in front of the radiator. I don't know for sure about the Galant configuration, but if you go back to the

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123814 link.

and go toward the bottom of the page to my post with the 4 pictures. Look where the one line is going into the oil pump area next to it is a hole. Where the line is going in and the hole next to it is open, is where your line in and line out ports are that feed and return oil from the oil cooler in front of the radiator on a '90 4G63 go.

Hope this helps ya,

Okay, that helps a little bit, but the only problem is that my filter housing doesn't look like that in that thread. Those two holes are located in the front on mine, as shown here:

http://www.roadraceengineering.com/instructions/oilline/oillinelocation-1g.jpg

So once I found out what engine I had, I was going to start looking into a turbo timer, and posted which would be the best here:

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124503

Would I even need the oil cooler? I checked the pics on RRE that have their connection hooked to the turbo (2g pics), and I checked my turbo and found tubing that ran from the turbo up and under back towards the head, the front one more towards the timing belt side and the other stayed on the throttle body side.

 

[terefic181]

You have a later version of the cooler. It is the one I spoke of that is water cooled at the filter end.
The RRE article you are speaking of, I believe, is the one that addresses the oil to your turbo. It is taking oil from a different source closer to the pump and at a higher pressure than the stock feed line, because it is a more direct rout. But this has nothing to do with the cooling of the oil only the feeding of oil to the turbo.

I must have misunderstood you in your earlier post. I thought you were asking about a '90 engine. So to answer your question more directly, you have a different housing than a '90 4g63, it is the later version and I frankly don't know if you can use the ports on that housing for cooling, not knowing the rout they are taking whithin the housing. You might write Mike or one of the guys at RRE and get some info on it.

 

[BUCK]

You'd need an aftermarket Air to Oil Cooler with an aftermarket Low Oil Temp Oil Cooler Cutoff Valve if you are going to use the style OFH in that RRE pic you posted showing a Water Cooler - You then remove the big Oil Filter Bolt from your OFH - throw away the Water Cooler - Then cut the longest portion of the Oil Filter Bolt threads off & loctite it into your OFH - You will then Spin your Oil Filter straight on the OFH like a real car - Those water Coolers are bad news - See my Gallery for pix of the above setup except in SC I don't need the Low Oil Temp Oil Cutoff Valve. Yes you can just plug those ports BUT if you must run with NO Oil Cooler for a short while please run Synthetic Oil. Also where is your original 90 OFH - that one has the Low Oil Temp Oil Cooler Cutoff valve built-in?

 

[19Eclipse90]

I am guessing that I am not being very clear because I don't really have any idea what BUCK is talking about and after reading my previous post I barely have any clue what I was trying to say. I do not want to buy anything from RRE. OK, let me try again... I have a JDM motor, I have an oil cooler, but do not know where to hook the hoses that run from it. Obviously the OFH is from a later version so will this cooler hook up to this OFH that is on my car, and if so, HOW? Sorry bout the confusion, thanks for the help so far.



edit: I didn't do the swap on my car BUCK so I don't have any of the original engine's parts.

 

[BUCK]

http://www.dsmtuners.com/gallery/data/503/9756MVC-027S.JPG

and...

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122003
System won't let me upload this pic again.

I am guessing that I am not being very clear because I don't really have any idea what BUCK is talking about and after reading my previous post I barely have any clue what I was trying to say. .

I am assuming your OFH (Oil Filter Housing) looks something like the pic from RRE you posted - That is - It has a Water Cooler attached.

I do not want to buy anything from RRE. .

You need an aftermarket Low Oil Temp Oil Cooler Cutoff Valve from somewhere - It gets too cold in Oklahoma or NH in the Winter to run an Air to Oil Cooler without one.

OK, let me try again... I have a JDM motor, I have an oil cooler, but do not know where to hook the hoses that run from it. .

What part about look at the pic in My Gallery didn't you understand?

Obviously the OFH is from a later version so will this cooler hook up to this OFH that is on my car

YES.

and if so, HOW? .

- Remove the big Oil Filter Bolt, THATS THE BOLT THE OIL FILTER SCREWS ONTO from your OFH, you'll need a deep well socket.
- Throw away the Water Cooler, they are bad news
- Then cut the longest portion of the Oil Filter Bolt threads off & loctite that into your OFH
- You will then Spin your Oil Filter straight on the OFH like a real car
- Plumb up your Oil Cooler & aftermarket Low Oil Temp Oil Cooler Cutoff Valve.
- Yes you can just plug those ports BUT if you MUST run with NO Oil Cooler for a SHORT time please run Synthetic Oil.