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bcfromfl · 02-19-2018, 06:59 PM

Thanks so much for everyone's input! I'm not trying to be difficult -- I'm just trying to sort through all this ahead of time so I don't get into surprises after everything's apart that delays the installation. Time on the phone with various parts people, waiting for delivery, etc., etc. We only have room for one car in our garage, and I'm going to be usurping my wife's car for the time this takes. A happy wife is a happy life, and all that...

I see the damper now in the photo, Bolio -- but it looks like the strut is on the passenger side? The strut part is wider -- did you flip it to make more room on the driver's side for the intercooler?

The fact that the damper is shown proves that there's enough room for it...but probably not for the OEM oil cooler, which sits in front of it. Hard to judge the space between the damper and where the OEM cooler would sit in the photo, and the back of the frame of the intercooler. Am I going to have to budget for a 34-row cooler, too? I wasn't planning on that. I'm not going to track the car, and I am happy where the temps are now, which allows plenty of upside for the s/c. I know that for the Nismo, the only choice is the 34-row.

I just got out a flashlight and a tape measure again, and the distance from the front side of my damper bar to the front of the fins of the OEM oil cooler is 1.5" -- but on my car I'm measuring from the damper bar and not the strut, which is on the driver's side. So, if the damper is flipped, the imaginary distance would be less (but there probably wouldn't be enough space between the strut and the cooler if it was flipped). The fins on the oil cooler are 1" deep, and as far as I can tell, it's just a simple air-cooled unit. No frame, just bare fins with a U-shaped run of pipe through it. The cooler starts about where the passenger side of the damper bolts to the support structure, and extends about 10" towards the driver's side -- so it would have to run behind the intercooler.

There is another alternative, but it's extremely difficult to determine with the bumper on. It appears that the oil cooler is mounted to the bottom side of the radiator frame with two simple zig-zagged metal pieces. I could possibly make two different pieces without the zig-zag (which shifts the cooler forward) to move the oil cooler slightly down and back to clear the damper, and position it directly underneath. I'd have to do this in such a way to make sure it stays in the air flow from the opening in front of it. (Maybe I could make a little shroud around it to direct air into it.)

Thanks again for everyone's help! TBatt -- by chance do you have the part number for the filter?

02-19-2018, 06:59 PM	#19 (permalink)
bcfromfl Enthusiast Member Join Date: Nov 2016 Location: Youngstown, FL Posts: 256 Drives: 2015 PW Nismo 6MT Rep Power: 9	Thanks so much for everyone's input! I'm not trying to be difficult -- I'm just trying to sort through all this ahead of time so I don't get into surprises after everything's apart that delays the installation. Time on the phone with various parts people, waiting for delivery, etc., etc. We only have room for one car in our garage, and I'm going to be usurping my wife's car for the time this takes. A happy wife is a happy life, and all that... I see the damper now in the photo, Bolio -- but it looks like the strut is on the passenger side? The strut part is wider -- did you flip it to make more room on the driver's side for the intercooler? The fact that the damper is shown proves that there's enough room for it...but probably not for the OEM oil cooler, which sits in front of it. Hard to judge the space between the damper and where the OEM cooler would sit in the photo, and the back of the frame of the intercooler. Am I going to have to budget for a 34-row cooler, too? I wasn't planning on that. I'm not going to track the car, and I am happy where the temps are now, which allows plenty of upside for the s/c. I know that for the Nismo, the only choice is the 34-row. I just got out a flashlight and a tape measure again, and the distance from the front side of my damper bar to the front of the fins of the OEM oil cooler is 1.5" -- but on my car I'm measuring from the damper bar and not the strut, which is on the driver's side. So, if the damper is flipped, the imaginary distance would be less (but there probably wouldn't be enough space between the strut and the cooler if it was flipped). The fins on the oil cooler are 1" deep, and as far as I can tell, it's just a simple air-cooled unit. No frame, just bare fins with a U-shaped run of pipe through it. The cooler starts about where the passenger side of the damper bolts to the support structure, and extends about 10" towards the driver's side -- so it would have to run behind the intercooler. There is another alternative, but it's extremely difficult to determine with the bumper on. It appears that the oil cooler is mounted to the bottom side of the radiator frame with two simple zig-zagged metal pieces. I could possibly make two different pieces without the zig-zag (which shifts the cooler forward) to move the oil cooler slightly down and back to clear the damper, and position it directly underneath. I'd have to do this in such a way to make sure it stays in the air flow from the opening in front of it. (Maybe I could make a little shroud around it to direct air into it.) Thanks again for everyone's help! TBatt -- by chance do you have the part number for the filter?