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Is my oil cooler a waste of time?

DerekJ

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Hi guys,

Having finally got my car over to Brussels I'm now getting acquainted with it more closely. The PO installed an oil cooler although everything else on the car is pretty standard with no pretensions as to racing or rallying.

I need to do something with it because one hose passes over the top of the valve cover and looks pretty ugly. Im thinking of just removing the whole unit. It is installed in the ususl place low down below the radiator but my car still has the bumpers installed and it does not have any additional grilles cut into it to serve the cooler as seen on race and rally cars. Doesn't this mean that the cooler is not really getting any cool air flowing over it and if so, is it really doing anything?
 
An effective oil cooler prevents oil pressure from dropping as much as it does without an oil cooler. What is the difference in pressure when cold and when hot at a given rpm, say 2,000?
 
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