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it's interesting, but I wonder....

 

Can anyone say "NO"?

 

Can't see why it wouldn't make some difference. Ever grabbed a hot oil filter? Certainly ain't no oil cooler though.

 

It would make your wallet lighter.

 

At a time when your oil is hottest is the same time when your radiator is the hottest. Where the filter is located would get mostly the hot air that comes throught the rad so the cooling effect would minimized. BUT, if you were to take air from one of the front fake ducts and run ducting right to in front of the oil filter with this little thingy on it, I bet you could reduce the oil temp a discernable amount.

 

Folks, to do anything it needs surface area and airflow. It has neither. The extra surface area from those pathetic fins is a joke, and it's not in an area that gets significant airflow.

 

shing, I'm sure it would do "something" and I'm also sure It wouldn't hurt any (It's not going to heat the oil up more), but it's a question of diminishing returns. Got to figure if the expense and pain are worth the potentially marginal return.
Tell ya what, I'll go halfsy's wit ya if you what to experiment

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by RT
[B]shing, I'm sure it would do "something" and I'm also sure It wouldn't hurt any (It's not going to heat the oil up more), but it's a question of diminishing returns.

 

We already have an oil cooler

 

In order to get any benefit from this, the heat sink would either have to fit your filter like a glove, or else you'd have to use thermal paste to fill in the gaps. Even then, the fins are too short and too far apart to get a lot of benefit - they appear to be 1/4" to 3/8" long at best, but should be more like 3/4"-1" long. The net surface area gain is perhaps 30% (head math estimating), which would largely be offset by the poor conduction between the filter and heatsink. I'd guess you might see a 1-2 degree (F) reduction of the oil filter temperature, and maybe 1 degree (F) in the oil temp.