An oil cooler may or may not actually affect your temperature. But I certainly consider it a must if you drive in hot summer weather, because the oil would otherwise not get cooled much at all. It's a nice piece of insurance against engine damage. The trans cooler only protects the trans
Also, a good idea for the same reason above.
With a new rad you should be able to keep your coolant pretty cool. A few things you could try:
Put in some water wetter ($15 CDN). This makes the water conduct heat better, and claims to reduce temps by anywhere from 8 to 20 degrees depending on your antifreeze/water blend.
Use more water than antifreeze in your cooling system. Water conducts the heat, the antifreeze just makes the mixture able to handle colder temps without freezing. Careful though, you wouldn't want water to freeze in your block.
You *may* want to consider an electric fan. I don't want to endorse this too much because I just installed mine and I can't really claim that it provides better cooling. But I'm pretty sure it does
It's also nice to be able to have the fan run while the car's off. A good way to cool down the water in your rad at the track
A temp gauge you can mount anywhere, it's pretty much completely up to you. I've got 3 aftermarket gauges (oil, water, boost). 2 I have on my a-pillar (bought an apillar gauge holder made for GNs) and 1 I've got temporarily under my radio. Installing gauges is not the easiest thing in the world (you may have to drill a hole in your firewall). Also, installing the sender in the engine is no day at the beach
For info on how, either ask again or search the forums. I know it's been asked, at least by me about 2 months ago
But after overheating my engine and damaging it, I'd consider a temp and oil pressure gauge a must
Synthetic oil will help a lot of stuff in general. I really don't know all the technical details, but I've heard only good things about it. I'm using mobil1 10w30 in mine.
Removing the condensor should help cooling as it somewhat blocks airflow to the rad. I personally wouldn't do this, even if my a/c didn't work, because it would be nice to allow for the possibility of A/C in the future and I wouldn't want to risk damaging anything expensive
It's up to you.
Good luck, and feel free to keep asking questions, we're a helpful bunch.
Dave
