Advice on oil radiator placement

[prb51]

Gents,
With a pusher fan I was wondering how effective an oil cooler would be mounted flush behind the radiator. Would this placement perform properly?
There is lots of room on the small mouth TR3 when the fan is removed and this would preclude any hole drilling or modifications to the original sheet metal.

 

[Guest]

Gents,
With a pusher fan I was wondering how effective an oil cooler would be mounted flush behind the radiator. Would this placement perform properly?
There is lots of room on the small mouth TR3 when the fan is removed and this would preclude any hole drilling or modifications to the original sheet metal.

This setup almost seems bass-ackward in that the ideal setup would be the electric fan in a puller position, especially with the crank fan removed, and the oil cooler in front of the coolant radiator to be exposed to more road air, at speed. Behind the coolant rad, it would be useful, but not as effective, kinda closed in and stuck behind an hot rad and hot engine. You couldn't go the other way around, and give the oil rad a little space between it and the coolant rad?

 

[prb51]

Bill,
Yea I know. I have the thin belt conversion but need the snout conterbalance as it's not the damped type therefore the pusher fan that has worked well in the past in our 110 degree heat.
I'm trying to keep from modifying sheet metal and the small mouth doesn't have much room due to the deep radiator apron shroud.
I've seen most mount it below the shroud and cut a panel in the lower valance/lip, I'd like to avoid that.
Soo, has anyone mounted an oli rad behind the radiator and will it perform in that location?

 

[TR3driver]

I have the thin belt conversion but need the snout conterbalance as it's not the damped type

That big iron lump does nothing for dampening harmonics nor for balancing. Get it out of there, and hang a fan behind the rad, as others have done.