Streetfighter Mustang
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The part that you have highlighted in red is not the oil cooler. It is simply a relocation manifold that allows the OEM oil cooler to be housed at the LHR of the engine block on the RHD Mustangs. This manifold is made of thick cast aluminium and is therefore not failure prone.Thanks for this information Dave, hearing all the stories of failing oil coolers (even on stock cars!) is a huge cause of anxiety for us Aussie RHD Mustang GT owners. I appreciate the effort you're putting into helping us all with this issue.
I just have a question regarding your Streetfighter / Mishimoto oil cooler package -
Does the Streetfighter kit completely replace the old oil cooler, or does it piggyback the Mishimoto oil cooler onto half of the existing RHD oil cooler? I have circled the part in question in red in the image attached. In your photos it appears that a large part of the original (failure-prone) oil cooler remains.
Background - My Mustang oil cooler utilises many parts from the Modular Motorsports Racing (MMR) kit. I must point out that it wasn’t as simple an installation as your kit claims - custom modifications were required to fit the LHD kit to my RHD car and there were additional space constraints due to my large front-mount procharger intercooler.
However, for maximum peace of mind, it is certainly possible to remove the entire original oil cooler – do you plan to offer this?
Thanks for letting us know how your Streetfighter kit addresses this.
Regards,
Tien
The OEM oil cooler bolts to this manifold that you have highlighted.
We believe the reason for the OEM cooler failing is the heat generated by either the standard or aftermarket exhaust manifold in this area. Because the standard oil cooler is made of very thin aluminium heat transferring material, we suspect that it suffers in this position.
Our Streetfighter package deletes this OEM cooler with our by-pass manifold,thus eliminating the problem and allows all the cooling, to be done at the font grill area by a high quality oil-air heat exchanger.
Hope this explains better.
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