your engine oil cooler pointing facing down you aren't worried about debree from the raod hitting this cooler?? great build by the way on a 3rd gen nova :woot:

Hey Billy! Awesome work as always. I've been trying to think of how you can get some air to the oil cooler. I was trying to envision the bumpers on these cars and if there was any way to duct air from the parking light area to the oil cooler. Probably forcing the air from the top down through the cooler may be better???????????????

I don't know how much an issue oil temp will be though. Just having the cooler and extra oil capacity may be more than enough to keep the oil temps down. It's just been kicking around in my head.

See you at SEMA in a couple of weeks! I can't wait!!!!!!!!!

Billy just a super job on your car.A ton of great ideas.Cant wait to see it finished.Looks like 2010 muscle machine of the year winner to me.LOVE IT, LOVE IT.Scott.

Yeah this thing is awesome, you have talent/ taste.:yes:

Bitchin man---truly cool stuff you got going on there---you are an artist fo shizzel---sorry, just saw snoop dog on a commercial--:lol:

There ain't much real estate on the front of these things is there---it's tough when you want to run a cooler for Trans, Motor, PS---but necessary for any serious track time. Hope the engine oil cooler works that way, since that's how i'd do mine if it does---keep pushing forward man--you got skills.

Doug

Hey Brandon,

I had a lot of similar ideas as yours. I'm hoping that just having the extra capacity and a cooler to circulate the oil through will be adequate. If not we just picked up two small spal fans to mount on it to get some forced airflow if needed.

Can't wait for SEMA as well :cheers:

Thanks Doug, We're planing on this car seeing some serious track time and road trips. So we're trying to equip it with the necessary hardware. which in itself has turned into it's own mini project of packaging problem solving. :faint:



Thanks for the compliments guys, I appreciate them.

Made some small progress tonight. Fabbed up the Power steering Reservoir.

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...er/PSTank1.jpg

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...er/PSTank2.jpg

Nice!!

A man after my own heart -- I love building my own stuff!!

:lateral: :woot:

Billy,

I noticed in your second picture that your using regular steel braided -6 line coming out of the high pressure side on your power steering pump. CHANGE IT !!!! That hose isn't designed for power steering. You need to change it over to a steel braid teflon inner lined type hose. The regular steel braid is not designed for those types of pressures. The steel braid hose has about a 1300 psi working pressure. The spikes in pressure on the power steering system will cause it to burst in a short time and the heat it generates isn't good for it either.

Hope this helps.

Mark