Let's talk about oil cooling for racing....

[Vegas69]

Things have been a little boring around here lately so I thought we could discuss oil coolers. I'm juggling some options that are economical and will get the job done. I started out looking at air coolers but am finding that they are extremely inefficient. They need to be so large to do the job and are hard to package in a 1st gen. I also don't want to impeed the area in front of my radiator necessarily incase I decide to put in my vintage air. It's also not ideal from the info I've gathered because air will pick the path of least resistance. (around the oil cooler)

Next I considered a dual pass radiator with a heat exchanger and that's still on the table. I've already set up my car and radiator support. I would need to rearrange my fresh radiator suport to put the excanger on the drivers side or move my hose ports to the passenger side to put the heat exchanger on the passenger side. I'm not crazy about the length of the bottom hose and the bend that will be needed along with misc. other changes. My only hangup is will my current radiator be good enough on the road course? It has always worked fine on the street, especially at speed. But will it do the trick on the road course?

My plan right now is to run a separate heat exchanger.(Similar to what is brazed into a radiator) Instead of putting it in series with my lower radiator hose, I want to use 12AN hose from my water pump ports along with 10AN oil ports. The water coming out of the bottom hose is usually 20-30 degrees cooler than your t stat housing. If I decide to run heat I can then just plumb it into the return side. The exchanger I'm looking at is a Ron Davis and is a 13 or 14 plate. I can have it built with AN fittings and any configuration I want. It's not tiny at 9x4x4.5 so I'll have to get creative to keep things neat.

What are your thoughts and am I on the right track for the road course?