Unless you really want to fiddle around much with the oil system, you'll have to go with a sandwich plate. Other than that, you can pick any oil cooler you want as long as you know how/where to mount it.
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Engine Oil Cooler
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Another question - does FORGE oil cooler have thermostatic oil sandwich plate ? It's look like that...and airtec too.
From the side there is some kind of screw.
From the side there is some kind of screw.
No, the Forge Motorsport oil cooler doesn't need of require a thermostat. I explained this before. The Air Tech doesn't either.
So simply question - if I buy Forge or AIRTEC (they look the same) it will be better for life of the engine if we talk about temperatures of the oil ? But someone wrote - too low oil temp isn't to good too. Someone wrote that oil pump will be harder working with cooler oil and I still don't know that forge or airtec have still open flow or only when temperature raise - so oil cooler yes or no ?
In my case - fully intake, fully exhaust and ecu tuning - is it worth it or no ?
I'm talking about futureproof and safety of the car.
In my case - fully intake, fully exhaust and ecu tuning - is it worth it or no ?
I'm talking about futureproof and safety of the car.
Completely unessesary, but won't massively negatively affect anything if you specifically get a thermostatic one. I suspect a non thermostatic one would make daily driving a bit more annoying as the oil will struggle to get up to temperature.
But what about tuned engine ? It won't be better/safer with oil cooler ?
PS. still talking about FORGE/AIRTEC only.
It would have to be some pretty heavy modifications to become mandatory i think. Im considering one now after finally finishing all my bolt ons and got a JB4 but even then my oil temps dont go too high. It can help for sure, but i dont think it will ever be mandatory with the stock turbo at least. It would take a hefty rebuild to become a necessity imo
I've never reached > 125 °C oil temp, even with tuned ecu and pushing it really hard (track days), @kamyk155 .
Im curious what oil you use considering you track it. 5w30?
I suspect my 0w30 gets a bit too hot at times so its about time i switch
Had 125C on my first trackday this year already. And it was only 20C ambient and I was only pushing through half the lap...
Also was running 0w30, was really worried - that's why I got myself the airtec oil cooler.
Throughout the whole trackday I was only thinking about how thin the 0w30 must have been at these temps.
So I got the oil cooler just as a precaution - the airtec has a built in thermostat, so there should be no issues with too cold oil during winter times.
Also was running 0w30, was really worried - that's why I got myself the airtec oil cooler.
Throughout the whole trackday I was only thinking about how thin the 0w30 must have been at these temps.
So I got the oil cooler just as a precaution - the airtec has a built in thermostat, so there should be no issues with too cold oil during winter times.
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Y'all need to stop talking about track days, please. My first of the year was cancelled due to COVID lockdown. Now today I get an email from North Australia Motor Sports Club saying August 1 track day cancelled because of COVID-related rescheduling of V8 Supercars Darwin round to August 8. I give up.
#cancel2020. Now I must drink heavily. Good night.
#cancel2020. Now I must drink heavily. Good night.
At hot, both are 30 grade... So i would suspect the difference at the brand.
I have also read that problems start when the oil temp goes above 115°C.
I have also read that problems start when the oil temp goes above 115°C.
At least you can drive on tracks during winter time (it is winter in Australia now, right?), our tracks in Germany are closed during our winter. Ok, I'll admit, you don't want to drive this car on a snowy track 
So..........AIRTEC oil cooler have built in thermostat ?
If yes - this is perfect solution (better for pump, flow only when temperature raise and no drilling or cutting compared to FORGE) but look posts above - people say id doesn't have it and it have bad inlet/outlet places.
I don't know what to think now. Someone say one thing someone other second thing....
Tbh the airtec won't likely be the best oil cooler ever constructed. But in my opinion any kind of oil cooler is enough for the N. So for me price-to-performance just fits with the airtec one.
I asked Airtec directly and yes, the oil cooler does have a thermostat built into the sandwich plate. You can see the spring which controls the mechanism in the pic as well.