Monday, August 4, 2014

Function over form

Originally I was hoping to hide the transmission cooler between the radiator and the cooling fan and whilst I could do that it's a bit of a squeeze and not really allowing the transmission cooler to do the best job it could. 

An unknown is also if it's temperature went too high would it also trigger the fan to run through the communication line between the TCM and the ECM. I'd rather not test this in traffic given how sensitive these transmissions are about overheating.

So the other options are to use a laminova style water cooler (might still need one anyway) or locate the cooler in front of the radiator.


Well a couple of brackets later... And some Aluminium paint for the front of the cooler


And we have a front mounting cooler with the correct air gap between it and the radiator blended in as much as possible. With the wind splitter in the nose this hopefully won't look too ugly... And if it does, well at least my transmission will be cool. Ish.


Just a bit of hose securing to be done and that's another job done.

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