Z06 oil cooler

[jimbo241]

My neighbor would like to install an oil cooler on his 2004 Z06 (engine modified). Any recommendations?

[carboman]

The best thing to keep temps (oil and coolant) under control is a Devitts radiator/oil cooler combo. It's a direct fit with the stock mount and increases cooling capacity a ton. Attached is a link to their site.

http://www.dewitts.com/pages/productdetail.asp?ProdID=350

[Norm Clemmer]

That is the exact same one I put in mine last winter. Last year my oil temp hit 308 at the New Jersey Motor Park. This year on a twenty degree hotter day at VIR <100 degrees in the pit area> and the hottest I ran was 276. Some of the stock Z06s were running hotter than that.

On normal driving oil temp runs in the 190s.

This is what I bought.

http://www.dewitts.com/pages/productdetail.asp?ProdID=350

http://www.dewitts.com/pages/productdetail.asp?ProdID=378

I installed the radiator and fan kit myself in not much more than an hour. The oil cooler adapter kit was another story.....Thus the only thing I would stongly consider is that you don't buy their engine oil cooler adapter kit.

http://www.dewitts.com/pages/productdetail.asp?ProdID=429

The alternator, headers and some other stuff had to be removed for the installation plus loosening the motor mounts and jacking up the engine for that kit to fit. I didn't have the time or the patience for the aggravation and ended up taking it to Pheonix and spending about 800 bucks to have it installed.

If I was doing it all over again I would just purchase an adapter and have stainless steel lines installed.

http://www.lingenfelter.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LPE&Product_Code=L300025297&Category_Code=C186