Separating engine oil cooler from the cooling loop?
As the tittle suggests, I would like to separate the engine oil cooler from the rest of the cooling system. Why? Because this engine has a tendency to overheat when in active daily use (gives 2 kind of warnings of temperature rising). I’m planning on increasing the engine’s power out put -> heat output, and it’s going to get driven pretty hard too.
Engine is the ever so infamous PRV V6 12v 3l - 167hp - even firing - fuel injected - NA model.
Or what are my other options?
Electric water pump, a bigger radiator and running the cooling fans manually?
Feedback and ideas are greatly appreciated.
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Larger radiator would do the trick
Does a thicker radiator add much cooling performance, since there isn’t room to go wider. Or a smaller one in parallel? (The 2.5TD has 2 radiators stock)
I don’t know quite why you would want to eliminate the oil cooler, if you want to remove it from the radiator you will need to install one to keep oil temps down. If you’re trying to improve your cooling you’ll need to get more air through the radiator surface. If the fins are all smashed in it will hurt cooling capacity. There’s a number of things you can do to help with poor cooling.
As I said in the post: the car has a tendency to overheat. And a separate oil cooler is what I had planned to do.
The current radiator isn’t in bad shape but neither does it perform like new.
I might end up doing getting an electric water pump and a, new bigger radiator. Since the OEM pump is hard to find.