8 replies to this topic

[MiniJosh92]

Is that what this is -



It's an mg metro engine & it definately looks like a factory thing, I thought a water heater oil filter housing to bring the oil up to temp quicker but I have never come across anything like it before on anything else??

[minimender]

Its actually an oil cooler, load of crap ,, get rid of it

[MiniJosh92]

Its actually an oil cooler, load of crap ,, get rid of it

That's what I thought at first but then thought surely it's going to be warm/hot water

[R1minimagic]

A lot of bike engines have that type of oil cooler fitted, including R1

[Ethel]

What temperature would you like your oil at? It'll warm it if it's colder than the water & cool it if it's hotter. They're more efficient than an oil to air cooler as water has 4 times the specific heat capacity & a thousand times the density. The only downside is it doesn't add any extra cooling because the heat still needs to be dumped in to the air by the radiator.

[Daviewonder]

It's actually called a heat exchanger. It warms cold oil and cools hot oil, I'd keep it

[minimender]

It's actually called a heat exchanger. It warms cold oil and cools hot oil, I'd keep it

It wont fit in the Mini, I think the filter fouls the subframe

[MiniJosh92]

It's actually called a heat exchanger. It warms cold oil and cools hot oil, I'd keep it

It wont fit in the Mini, I think the filter fouls the subframe

I don't think it will fit in a mini.

[998dave]

Oils normally about 110DegC, Coolant about 95, so not that different, but I'd get rid of it and stick a normal mini oil filter housing on.

Dave