Oil Cooler Delete?

[thereisnoyun]

lets see - should I listen to the BMW engineers who had millions of dollars and a couple decades to design the engine and cooling system, or some backyard hick

most e30 owners are ... backyard hicks and psuedo rednecks... I'm not sure what you are getting at here. Not all, but a huge majority of them.

also I dont think they had synthetic oil back in the 1980s. Do you have an actual number of the amount oil heats up without the cooler? how are you determining that the heat will be substantial even with synthetic to premature wear the engine?

and yes, for all those taht said weight reduction is meaningless... or taht a mere 5 lbs is meaningless, take 5 lb and apply to all the 20 things that you catagorize as meaningless weight reduction and you have 100lb weight loss.

[thereisnoyun]

Can I have my username title changed go "Gunho and hardcore into tracking my car"?

I think you already have the hardcore part in your signature courtsey of mr. anderson :P

[Farbin Kaiber]

most e30 owners are ... backyard hicks and psuedo rednecks... I'm not sure what you are getting at here. Not all, but a huge majority of them.

also I dont think they had synthetic oil back in the 1980s. Do you have an actual number of the amount oil heats up without the cooler? how are you determining that the heat will be substantial even with synthetic to premature wear the engine?

and yes, for all those taht said weight reduction is meaningless... or taht a mere 5 lbs is meaningless, take 5 lb and apply to all the 20 things that you catagorize as meaningless weight reduction and you have 100lb weight loss.

Yeah, but you also do not decrease the ammount of mechanical "things" on the car, maybe a lighter, smaller oil cooler, but you don't gut it.

Example, You don't throw away your brake rotors on a drag car cyz, hey, who needs brakes to go fast in a straight line, no. you decrease the total weight of said system.

[thereisnoyun]

Yeah, but you also do not decrease the ammount of mechanical "things" on the car, maybe a lighter, smaller oil cooler, but you don't gut it.

Example, You don't throw away your brake rotors on a drag car cyz, hey, who needs brakes to go fast in a straight line, no. you decrease the total weight of said system.

finally... someone who actually posted something intelligent and actually try to give some advice...

[atomic]

Farbin Kaiber could send you over some of his hard pipe hitting rats and field mice to do some behind the dash weight reduction mods for you...



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[StereoInstaller1]

So, if you really want to take the oil cooler off of an "i" motor, you can use the oil filter mounting stub off of an ETA in place of the entire line adapter. It works perfectly and is reversible.

My wifes filter adapter was leaking badly. She needed to drive her car while waiting for parts. There are 2 different sizes of crush washers, the dealer had the wrong one. I swapped the stub, she was on the road.

[FredK]

Farbin Kaiber could send you over some of his hard pipe hitting rats and field mice to do some behind the dash weight reduction mods for you...

go to work on the homes here, pair of pliers and a blowtorch...

[Farbin Kaiber]

These guys are hardcore, they don't mind leaving a mess.

[nando]

and yes, for all those taht said weight reduction is meaningless... or taht a mere 5 lbs is meaningless, take 5 lb and apply to all the 20 things that you catagorize as meaningless weight reduction and you have 100lb weight loss.

Right, so you end up like all the redneck E30 owners you speak of - with a gutted, rolling parts car. yay for you.

[Farbin Kaiber]

If you don't turn much, I'm sure you could ditch the turnsignals, bulbs, and all associated wiring. A weight savings of at least 31 oz. of mad tyte jdm niftyness.

[jlevie]

The easiest way to eliminate the oil cooler would be to get the threaded adapter that's used on an E34 525i. It screws into the block in place of the filter adapter bolt and the filter spins onto it.

[SpecM]

+1 for the e30 eta or e34 m20 oil filter mount. You can find them cheap.
-Don't let everyone hate on you. Yea, I think its dumb to take off the oil cooler since it's helping you in the long run, but if you want to, go for it.

[Charlie]

Right, so you end up like all the redneck E30 owners you speak of - with a gutted, rolling parts car. yay for you.

You know, on e30tech, that's called a "turbo project".

-Charlie

[providence]

Man-it's your car. If you want to strip it down then more power to you. One guys gonna turbo his ride and then add 200 lbs of audio crap, another guys gonna spend a week scraping soundproofing out of the trunk and deleting every unnecessary doodad he can think of. One dude will go years without a tune up but sink a fortune into getting AC working so his crap running car will stay cool in the summer. Some folks have a lot of money to throw at a project-others can barely keep their shit running. Someone right now is parting out a car that many of us would pimp our sister for. I am planning to remove AC, ABS, and cruise control from my 325is and that's it. Every time I post on a forum looking for some solid advice on a correct way to remove something-there is the inevitable outcry against it. Whatever-the e30 as a platform lends itself to a lot of different styles-be it over the top ricer-ness or the quasi-hillbilly rat rod approach. I may not agree with the many of the bolt-on 'performance' products out there, or the lame body kit somebody might lust after-but I respect the impulse to create something personal. The benefit of these forums is to steer people in the right direction-but personal taste is always gonna win out.

[SpecM]

also I dont think they had synthetic oil back in the 1980s

-"They" had synthetic oil in the 1940s