DailyDrifter
The Slow and the Curious
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SignUp Now!External air to fluid coolers are great ADD ONS. But the will never transfer heat as well as fluid to fluid cooling.
Putts you in a jam four the turbo saver too!!!So you are running the bigger of the two that B&M offers. Probably going to mount in the same place. Going to find a new home for my alky pump towards the back of the car.
But if the fluid is 180 degrees how well is it going to cool? The lowest temp the trans fluid could be is 180 at that point, then you dump more heat into the radiator. I'm not trying to argue FWIW. I also have external trans and oil coolers.
The trans cooler is on the cool side of the radiator so it's not at 180*
I'd think the trans is happier at a constant temperature. I think the fluid should go through the external cooler, then the radiator heat exchanger.
That way, you dump the highest temp to the outside, then if it is still hotter than the water supply temp, you cool it further. Doing it the other way puts more load on the radiator, which you don't need in hot weather.
fwiw
Jay
To the original poster, why not use the in-radiator cooler and use synthetic fluid ? Synthetic makes a huge difference .. If your worried about debris, run a filter on the return line before the trans..Napa has them in 3/8 and 5/16..