So i can be pretty handy turning a wrench but since i haven't been into cars my whole life my mechanical know how on how stuff actually works is pretty crappy. TCG to the rescue...
I am doing some work to my car (19 Charger 6.4L) to get it more ready to handle the road course this year. One of the main concerns i had last year is my oil temps would sky rocket within 2-3 laps of pushing hard. The temps would reach into the 290s. I've read that synthetic motor oil can handle being way above that but it makes me uncomfortable.
So i want to find a way to bring that down. The car has a built in sandwich type oil cooler that the oil filter attaches too. My understanding is that it uses the coolant from the car to cool the oil so obviously the hotter the car gets the less efficient its going to be.
Here come the questions...
Am i better off adding an additional heat exchanger for the coolant like the hellcats have to decrease coolant temps and subsequently oil temps? Or would just replacing the entire radiator with an upgrade be more logical?
My first thoughts where to put an actual oil cooler in. Something that i can mount to the bumper. I'm just not sure how these would hook up. Can they be connected directly to the stock oil cooler? Some quick googling and i didn't find any off the shelf type kits for my car. I'm thinking something like this would fit nicely.
10 Row Oil cooler
Any advice would be appreciated!
I am doing some work to my car (19 Charger 6.4L) to get it more ready to handle the road course this year. One of the main concerns i had last year is my oil temps would sky rocket within 2-3 laps of pushing hard. The temps would reach into the 290s. I've read that synthetic motor oil can handle being way above that but it makes me uncomfortable.
So i want to find a way to bring that down. The car has a built in sandwich type oil cooler that the oil filter attaches too. My understanding is that it uses the coolant from the car to cool the oil so obviously the hotter the car gets the less efficient its going to be.
Here come the questions...
Am i better off adding an additional heat exchanger for the coolant like the hellcats have to decrease coolant temps and subsequently oil temps? Or would just replacing the entire radiator with an upgrade be more logical?
My first thoughts where to put an actual oil cooler in. Something that i can mount to the bumper. I'm just not sure how these would hook up. Can they be connected directly to the stock oil cooler? Some quick googling and i didn't find any off the shelf type kits for my car. I'm thinking something like this would fit nicely.
10 Row Oil cooler
Any advice would be appreciated!