Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 19:46:09 -0700
Reply-To: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
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From: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject: Re: What is the best location for an external oil cooler?
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Try a fan?
On 5/16/06 6:30 PM, "David Marshall" <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA> wrote:
> Volks,
>
> I’ve recently upgraded my TriStar to use a pumpe düse TDI engine. This
> flavour of the TDI uses the cam to push on the injector to make some REALLY
> high fuel pressures for better economy and pollution levels. The draw back
> of this is that the injector doesn’t squirt all of this compressed fuel and
> most of it gets returned to the tank. As we are aware, when you compress
> something it gets hot and Diesel fuel is no exception to that rule. After a
> 30 minute drive the fuel in the return line is almost as hot as the coolant!
> As a result of this VW / Audi fits a small radiator to the fuel return line
> to cool the fuel off before it goes to the tank. I have a small 4 x 12” oil
> cooler that I am using for a fuel cooler and it is mounted on the very back
> wall of the engine compartment so it is just visible if you look up into the
> engine compartment from below. Well, that cooler is damn hot! The fuel
> between the cooler and the tank is definitely cooler than the pre cooler
> fuel, but I would like to get it colder. Besides running the fuel return
> line to the front of the van and to the back again ( I have a Syncro ) is
> there any other place that people have used for oil coolers that won’t get
> hit with road and off-road debris and still get plenty of air going over it?
> I was thinking of the area under the sliding door.
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> Pictures of the install (including the fuel cooler’s present location) can
> be seen at http://www.hasenwerk.ca/pumpedusetristar
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> Thanks in advance!
>
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> David Marshall
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