How far will oil travel to an oil cooler

[Batfastard]

Was looking at mouting an engine oil cooler on the back of my truck but unsure what size hose to use and also unsure how far engine oil will travel safely with just the engine oil pump ,any one no or done this .

[demon]

Pm me your number

[Batfastard]

Done

[shortylux]

Yep, im interested in this aswell.

[darinz]

I remote mounted my oil cooler when I originally did the transplant into the GQ (about 5 years ago). We ended up with 30psi instead of 80psi due to the length and size of the hoses used. The filter ended up on the other side of the engine bay and the cooler at the front (Obviously) so about 3 meters in total hose length. It was taken out basically straight away due to the pressure drop.

The problem was we diverted all of the oil to go through the cooler and so restricted the flow way too much.

Also the hose size is pretty important. I used -8 as that is what came with the cooler but the internal size of the lines feeding the oil filter (factory housing) was 19mm which is bigger than -10.

I've been meaning to put a cooler back on and my plan is to use a bypass sandwich plate so that only a portion of the oil goes to the cooler with the majority just following the standard path.

The other option is to run an electric oil pump to feed the cooler and just draw out of the sump. An MR2 power steering pump (I think) is what some people use for this method.

FYI I run my trans coolers on the rear and all I've done is run a 1/2 hose from the trans to the cooler instead of the 3/8 from the factory and that worked really well in Taupo. The only problem I had was lack of airflow to the coolers above about 160k's but a scoop of some sort will solve that.

[4WDbits]

As darinz says, pipe size is the key.

We run -10 for all our remote filter and cooler. Cooler plumbing is about 6 meters in total, remote filter another 0.6 meter.

We also use a temperature controlled bypass so when the oil is cold the cooler is almost totally by passed.

We have almost no pressure drop across the system at all temperatures.

We tried a filter sandwich plate, but found it left the filter to exposed below the sump so switched to a remote filter.

[Mehrts]

I've been thinking of remote mounting my oil filter. Are there any specific things you would/wouldn't recommend?

I'm sick of having oil piss everywhere when I do filter changes due to the angle it's sitting at (45 degrees upside down) and thought this will sort it out.

If it's too much hassle or pricey, I won't bother. Just doing some homework on it all at the moment.

[4WDbits]

We're using this remote filter housing http://www.summitracing.com/dom/parts/der-25709/overview/ with a fram filter from BNT.

This is the cooler by pass http://www.summitracing.com/dom/parts/der-25792/overview/

The engine filter adapter is http://www.summitracing.com/dom/parts/ctr-22-598/overview/

The -10 fittings and hose came from a bunch of places, most from Greenland Speed Shop because the fittings had larger internal sizes for the fitting size.

[Mehrts]

Awesome, cheers for that info!

Had a bit of a look around and not many crowds do an adapter for my 26x1.5mm filter screw thread unfortunately.

[tweake]

We're using this remote filter housing http://www.summitracing.com/dom/parts/der-25709/overview/ with a fram filter from BNT.

what filter do you use?
i was looking at fitting dual z9's.

[4WDbits]

We're using this remote filter housing http://www.summitracing.com/dom/parts/der-25709/overview/ with a fram filter from BNT.

what filter do you use?
i was looking at fitting dual z9's.

TG8A

[tweake]

We're using this remote filter housing http://www.summitracing.com/dom/parts/der-25709/overview/ with a fram filter from BNT.

what filter do you use?
i was looking at fitting dual z9's.

TG8A

i'm surprised your single z9 flows enough