Oil Cooler shrouds - How important?
05-19-2012, 05:30 PM
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Oil Cooler shrouds - How important?
I'm just wondering if the rubber oil cooler shrouds are absolutely neccessary to help direct flow to keep things cool? I realise this may be a strange question, but Ill be installing an aftermarket front bumper and it looks odd with them on... Will temperatures rise significantly? or at all?
05-19-2012, 10:26 PM
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to my knowledge it is bad to remove them. IIRC... the mazdaspeed bumper has ducts built in to direct air flow to the coolers.
Just rip them off and go to home depot and get 4 sheets of aluminum and make your own ducts to fit the hole of the new bumper.
Just rip them off and go to home depot and get 4 sheets of aluminum and make your own ducts to fit the hole of the new bumper.
05-20-2012, 07:49 PM
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you are right, hey take them off. Mazda put them there for no reason, they just like to add random stuff to our car that serves no purpose.
Air goes to the path of least resistance. without the duct the air would simply go around the oil cooler thus raising temps. It doesnt take someone collecting hard data to find out this happens, though oldragger has satisfied this. If you go on rx7club.. the first mod they do after installing the 99 spec front end is to fabricate oil cooler ducts to direct air to the cooler, not around the cooler.
Air goes to the path of least resistance. without the duct the air would simply go around the oil cooler thus raising temps. It doesnt take someone collecting hard data to find out this happens, though oldragger has satisfied this. If you go on rx7club.. the first mod they do after installing the 99 spec front end is to fabricate oil cooler ducts to direct air to the cooler, not around the cooler.
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05-21-2012, 08:58 AM
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ok, perhaps you should go back and read what i actually SAID.
i said if you have the ms bumper AND you have foglights, the instructions provided by "silly Mazda" specifically call for hacking the hell out of those oil coolers. ie, chopping off 2/3 of it and throwing it away.
and again, unlike you, i'm not guessing or playing armchair physics or supplying anecdotal evidence.
draw your own conclusions.
i said if you have the ms bumper AND you have foglights, the instructions provided by "silly Mazda" specifically call for hacking the hell out of those oil coolers. ie, chopping off 2/3 of it and throwing it away.
and again, unlike you, i'm not guessing or playing armchair physics or supplying anecdotal evidence.
draw your own conclusions.
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