Recently I posted about not being able to locate the oil coolant lines anywhere and had to do temp fix on the line. Knowing it wouldn't hold up for very long I was able to eliminate the lines and oil cooler with factory parts. The cooler was an option and I ordered the parts that substituted it, a bi-pass hose etc.

I searched through the forums & some have claimed up to 8 additional p.s.i. oil pressure after deleting the oil cooler. My oil pressure seems to be the same.

Those of you that have done the delete, did you notice any increase in your oil pressure? Or is it so slight that the gauge doesn't pick it up?

Thanks

 

By most accounts it is slight.

 

I noticed a little. It's a must with Kooks LT's. Later on I plan to run some braised stainless from an oil filter relocation and put my oil filters on the frame rail where the abs module used to be.

The factory cooler is a rinky dink Mickey Mouse setup to begin with. If you call circulating hot engine coolant though an aluminum housing really cooling the oil you might need your head checked. It's not nearly as efficient as something from the aftermarket IMHO.

 

I too noticed a small gain with the delete. This was after switching to Royal Purple 10/30 instead of Mobil one 10/30, which also helped the oil pressure slightly.

 

Just to be different from everybody else, I added an oil cooler to my car. As near as I can tell, the oil pressure didn't change any. I like my oil cooler and I think it does more good than harm.

 

Why would you delete your oil cooler? I can see relocating it to make room for headers or something, but deleting it?

My car didn't come with one, and I want to add it.

 

I bought my 97SS with the optional oil cooler. After I spun a bearing (with less than 7K) I opted not to get a new cooler with my short block.

Even though the bearing probably spun because of a bad cam install--don't really know for sure---I did see metal shavings in the cooler body.

I really don't know how the cooler works, but apparently the oil goes through the cooler----and if that is the case, it seems that one must consider that it may get clogged and need to be priodically cleaned. Again, I do not know. I guess if you had a circle track car, that an oil cooler would be beneficial, however I really wonder about the merits of having one.

I guess one needs to take these things into consideration before putting one on, especially the type where the oil goes through the cooler. At least w/o a cooler that is one less thing you need to be concerned about. JMHO

 

Jake: My home town used to be Lansing.

 

Do yourself a favor and save your engine. Lose the oil cooler.

 

This has been covered many times.

The factory f-body oil cooler uses engine coolant to operate. The coolant reaches operating temps much faster than the oil so GM passes warm coolant through the oil cooler to cause the oil to heat up faster to improve efficiency and reduce emissions.

It has the ability to cool the oil under extreme conditions only but overall is not very effective because it is dependant on the temps of the engine coolant

It is also well documented that the GM f-body oil coolers tend to clog up with junk and carbon, when I took mine apart after deletion I was shocked at the crap I found that had been in the oil system. When this happens it will cause a flow restriction.

The oil coolers that are worth it are the plain old technology air to air coolers that do not use engine coolant at all. IMHO the GM f-body oil coolers are more like oil warmers because they operate off of engine coolant.

 

What all has to be changed to delete it?

 

Why do I need one? For less oil pressure? So it can clog up? The motor never goes over 190 degrees, most of the time 180 to 185. I don't road race. Any other car I've owned never had one. I just really don't see the point in having one for my set-up.

 

I deleted mine as well when doing the stepped Kook's install. It was easy to bypass the lines etc, and I have the upgraded aluminum oil cooler that came on mine ('95 1LE). I didn't really notice any increase in pressure, but then again, this part came off my engine looking basically brand new and not clogged at all, so my opinion will vary from others. I noticed no change of any kind, other than clearance to do a filter change with the big tubes.

 

Okay, didn't know that the F-body cooler was water-to-oil. That sucks.

Coolant temperature tells you zilch about oil temperature. Do you ever hot-lap at the drag strip?

 

Almost. The temps always stay the same or damn close to it, and the car actually likes to be warmed up before running it. This is a toy, and the oil never sees more than 500 miles on average. Not to be an ***, but whats your point?