Stillen 7AT coolers installed?

wstar

As far as the rest of the kit goes, my primary complaint was that the holes on the mounting bracket aren't quite large enough diameter for the shipped self-drilling screws (the self-drilling is for the radiator core support lower shelf). You can sit there and drill through the bracket with the screws before you install it, but it just dulls them and takes forever. Far easier to drill them to 1/4" diameter with a proper drill bit, which makes me wonder why they didn't do this in the first place.

With two sets of hands (two guys crammed under the front of the car on Rhino Ramps), it's possible to pre-fill the cooler and new hoses, cap them temporarily with a couple of junk bolts of correct diameter, and then do the hose swaps with minimal fluid loss.

I'm likely to switch to 5/16" hardware/hoses unless I hear something different/better out of Stillen. If I end up going that route, seems like I would have been better off financially making my own bracket (a peice of steel with 7 holes drilled in the correct spots would do) and buying my own Setrab and hardware though, than buying Stillen's kit.

I don't mind paying someone to put together a ready-to-go kit and save me some trouble, but if I have to re-drill the bracket, abort the process wasting a whole day when I find out the hoses don't fit right, and then replace most of the fittings and hose they sent anyways, what was the point?

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wstar

FYI, the parts I'm looking at on summitracing.com are:

2x AER-FBM2978 - Aeroquip 90 degree swivel -6AN F-to-F
2x AEI-15635 - Aeromotive -6AN Male to 5/16" hose barb

^ Those, combined, would replace the -6AN Female to 3/8" clampless barb 90 degree fittings Stillen ships. Then you just need ~6-7 ft of good 5/16" SAE J1019 rated transmission cooler hose (NAPA Auto Parts has this by the foot in my area, so does O'Reilly, they both seem to stock Gates brand too, which is good), and 2 more worm drive clamps (to go with the 2 they already shipped).

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G37xMN

If I were to order a 34 row cooler from Z1, would I just be able to order these fittings to make it work? The lines included from Z1 are for motor oil, I was told I would need new lines so I’m assuming fittings as well.