Z1 Motorsports 34-row oil cooler kit (any experiences?)

seungklee

Thanks for clearing up the Stillen Gen III Intake fitment issue daisuke, I been wanting to know that too haha. For the Z1 oil cooler kit, do you need protective hose wrapping? Is it necessary?

daisuke149

Its a good thing to have it.

ChrisSlicks

With street driving this is true as you can't be on the throttle that long, but when you start taking it to a track where you spend a lot of time in the high RPM's the oil temps will start to come up and you'll be very glad you have a good oil cooler. If you go often enough to become proficient at a given track then at the end of 30 minutes you'll be wishing you got the bigger one, LOL.

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christian370z

I feel like I may be regretting that based on your comment haha, that 220 drive was with Triple's on my bumper going uphill in 2nd gear mostly. Once I get Akebonos with some high temp fluid and pads, I really hope to make it to a track someday and hope oil temps won't become a problem!

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ChrisSlicks

You will be fine for quite a while. It takes quite a few track days to find the limit of what you have now.

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flashburn

Yeah, and even then, you might find that you can go 100% for the majority of the session, and then a tad less on the throttle for a small remainder of it and be fine.

For anyone that hasn't already gotten an oil cooler and plans on tracking, I think there is little reason not to go with the 34R cooler, as the price difference is pretty minimal.

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flashburn

Yes, I think it is for any place where the lines are touching parts of the car they need to be protected. You might also want to wrap parts with rubber hosing where it touches the frame of the car, because that can cause some resonance which will demonstrate itself as a whining sound when the RPM's are at certain levels.

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seungklee

Thanks flashburn, I appreciate your response and any other guys here including Z1! Thanks again!