M.Bonanni's 370Z Project "Born Again"

M.Bonanni · 07-01-2011, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by ChrisSlicks

Looks like you're off to a good start! Interested to see how it ends up. As for the oil cooler ducting it might help a little, but I don't think there is an air cooler big enough to keep this car cool. I think I will eventually go to a oil/water cooler and let the giant radiator do the work.

I think it will help a lot more than it seems like it will when you look at fluid dynamics. Air travels through the least path of resistance and the oil cooler is a path of resistance, as is the radiator so air will find any way to go around it. If you block off all of the little holes around the radiator and duct the oil cooler, you're forcing more air to go around it. Did this on the Berk 135i with exceptional results. Plus it is A LOT cheaper haha. Fingers crossed that it works well enough but we'll have to see.