2012 Z Factory Oil Cooler - PIC AND PART NUMBERS INSIDE

martin82

yeah, oil cooler is garbage........... I need to order a 34 row now trying to find the best price....

roy'sz

hey martin i'd go with z1. Reasonable priced and great quality. I got mine from nissan north america but it didn't have the thermostatic plate. I ended up buying the adapter from gtm motorsports and bought the hoses from z1. They have great customer service there. If you don't do serious canyon carving or tracking then the 25 row would be great. The 34 is nice, but I had to make a blockoff plate for mine to maintain a warm temp. My 2cents worth

KingZee

call Lou @ Amplified, he got me my GTM 34 row for a great price and very professional install. He's local to you too.

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martin82

Thanks for the reply, I track my car hard! Bought it end of Nov and already have 6 track days. One good thing about a 2012 is that the coolant will heat up the oil faster at least and I can just use a blockoff plate and take it off at the track

NYBladeZ

An aftermarket air oil cooler can be installed at home by anyone who does their own oil changes. My buddy and I did it at home and didn't even have to take off the front bumper. Just saying, for those DIYers.

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roy'sz

yeah martin that is a plus, im not too sure though they have figured a way to incorporate the seperate setrab coolers with the existing one you have to get the quick warm up time on the oil. I know that it takes about 15 min for mine to warm up when I leave work goin down the freeway. For punishing purposes, I had the cooler and thermostatic plate attatched and went canyon carving last summer. I was high 2nd and mid to high 3rd for 25 min straight and I never breached 220*F. The setrab cooler is VERY effective at excavating heat.

Gauge

Just to put in my two cents.

I didn't want to comment on this until I took mine for a spin is good weather on a hot day. Went for a cruise today with ZInferno and red lined a few times, regularly hit 5-6kRPM's and not once did I get over 220 oil temp. Was about 80 degrees outside.

For me the factory oil cooler worked fine. I can't comment on if it will work with F.I. but for stock it seemed to work fine for me.

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ImportConvert

What temperature do you think your coolant is? What you are seeing is normal. My z06 had the same type of cooler and at idle oil would hit 210 or so. Around town, similar, and on the freeway 195. Just like my 370.

Nixlimited

No idea what the actual temperature of my coolant is since all I see is the dots. The coolant temp never rises above what appears to be one dot below the middle. Oil temps seem to have been a little more reasonable lately, but still keeping an eye on them.

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ImportConvert

Coolant in every car I have owned with real gauges is 190-220.

psibrr

Been almost 3 weeks, after a 2nd oil change switchingg to full synth 5/30, temps seem to heat up a bit more and faster, around 180F after 8 miles of light to medium traffic from cold morning start ( 60s - 70's F. )

210F w/ ambient in 80's after some miles. Of course any high air flow can cool an engine, under 4K there's no probs.

However, couple days ago noticed 220 with 20 min of low gears in city to highway traffic, high 80's, no a/c on; wondered if there was any cooler at all.

Optimum oil temp is 212F; that's when ideal viscosity is reached, and any water will boil out of oil. 220 not too bad if that's typical traffic limit with this cooler type, over 220 would be a failure imo.

If true that all the 350's had this water/oil cooler design, should expect its performance specs re: 370 engine heat to be fairly well known by now by Nissan at least; a 380RS Touge utube vid is from 2009; think that has a lower heat issue?

This is old news here/now, but spoke with Niss Consumer Service guy today after he needed a second day to contact mechanix and verify existence of an oil cooler for '12's, but had no info on specs, temp ranges to expect v. rpm and ambient temps etc; this should be in the owner's manual.

3 Niss dealer's in town knew nothing about cooler reality either.. maybe they should get onto this site.. I'll mention that to them next time; basically we're still in age when 1/3 of population is not computer literate.

martin82

I will be picking up my Z1 34 row cooler and Z1 powersteering cooler hopefully tonight/tomorrow and should be installing it on my 2012 on Sunday if I have time.

On the stock cooler, my oil reaches 260 at the track after 3-4 laps but it stays at 260 and never went past it even at 8-9 laps. I just don't feel comfortable with it hitting 260 now, and no idea what it will hit in the summer.

GEOKI

so when does the Z goes on Limp Mode? 280F or 300F? I drove my car on a 85 degree during traffic hours and it went up to 220F

roy'sz

best bet if you go out to palm springs and toy around in some of the mountains out there you would have gone into limp mode. As previously asked limp mode is at 280.

glenthall

It is complete CRAP.

And... You cant remove it.
only option is if there is a way to add another aftermarket over the top
of the OEM water cooled POS.

Nissan really screwed the pooch on this one...