205 Oil cooler

So there i was 1st thing this morning, out on my car...
I cut a hole in the lower spoiler and mounted my Oil cooler.... i routed the
braided hoses underneath and around to the oil filter.
I jacked the car up, took the sump plug out.. let the oil drain out. undid
the oil filter, drianed out the oil in that.. put the sump plug back in..
The i got the oil cooler adaptor that goes in between the oil filter and the
engine block...

Yeap you`ve guessed it.. slightly different thread !!
Who would of thought that a 1.6 GTI block was slightly different to a
1.9...?
So I`ve taken it all off again.. but some nasty looking mesh over the whole
( will tidy later ) and took it all off and put the car back to how it was
ggggggggrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhh

So I`ve now got an almost mint Oil cooler for a 1.9 GTI if anyone is
interested !!

LOL....

 

Hello,

Me. I'm not surprised, indeed.

If you're worried about cooling, esp. in racing use, go for a twin fan
conversion (like some 1.9GTis I guess, and all Diesel types).

Another way (you can do it besides the twin fan mod), would be to add a
switch (near the hazard lights / window heater / rear foglight switches),
take the same switch (cheap @ scrapyards), remove plate, there are two more
extra rooms for it (or just one on GTis, one being used for front foglights,
IIRC), and wire it to force fans to run on 1st speed.(*)
I know my brother did that on his '91 DTurbo, 'cause he found it was heating
a bit too much in road jams before fans kick in.

(*) I wouldn't recommend wiring it on +APC for obvious engine warm up /
electrical load and fans use ratio.

 

I`ve already fitted a 2nd fan to my car....
I just thought it would be extra cool if i fitted an oil cooler...
But I`m slowly learning that its not always the best thing...

I also run my car on Mobil 1..fully synthetic.. but i`ve been told
and also read in this months Retro cars that a 15/40-10/40 is best
as the engine was designed long before synthetic oils were thought of...?

Any ideas on this !

 

Always use synths, providing the ratings 10-40 etc are the same they will do
the same job, just better.

J

 

Thats what i thought !!

Thanks Coyoteboy