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Originally Posted by bigZ
If I do not intend on bringing my 370z to the track should I still invest in an oil cooler?
I intend on buying headers, high flow cats , intake, cat back and a tune for the car over the next year. SHould I budget an oil cooler too?
Dave B
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No, you shouldn't.
GM used to put a plate/fin style oil cooler in the Z06. They no-longer do. The ZR1 doesn't have one, either.
Oil coolers cause problems on the street. Now GM has an oil-cooler that uses the coolant to regulate oil temp. It lives by the oil-pan and has no fins, etc. It simply moves the coolant and oil near each other to keep them roughly the same temp.
A lot of Z06 owners from previous years are only hitting 135-155* on the highway oil-temp. My car runs 185-200* on the highway, depending on ambient temp.
So MUCH BETTER for the car.
I would suggest you take a note from GM who REMOVED an oil-cooler like the one you want to install and developed a different one that won't cause as much issue.