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Since some work on the sheet metal on the front of the car, I could not use the RX7 EOC type of cooler I had for the car. Likely a good thing as they were OK, but not the greatest of quality (I have 2 available). So the quest for a new smaller sized cooler was started and I had a couple of Fluidyne (my preference) but they were just too tall and mounting was going to take a bit more work.
I ended up finding a company called CSF That makes a radiators and now also high performance oil coolers. Found one that looked good for a fit, 22" across x 4.5" tall. Pretty much perfect. The down side is that they are models for Porsche RSR's and as such are way more expensive then the generic one that is about the same size (by $200+). Oh well, that's the cost of doing business with a Tiger
The cooler mounts from the top and bottoms, so got the specs and had some brackets and spacers cut at Send Cut Send laser cutting. They are 100% the best place I have used, highly recommend. Uploaded my CAD files and in a couple of day had metal in my hand.
The idea was to use the bracket as a pattern to mark the mounting holes though the front snout of the car, and then use as a bottom support. Spacers were needed also as the welds on the cooler are above the flat surface of the mount. The Porsche mounts are different and fine for them.
Seem my car is far from square, so could not really measure much to get centers, and it was by 'Seems OK' type of positioning. Hole drilled , and dug up some Metric 8mm bolts that were too long but would get me going until McMaster shows up.
The bottom mount was going to be easy, but since things are off on my car I had to make some custom brackets for the bottom, need a bit of finish work to mount that to the laser cut bottom support.
Good project and fits nicely, hose routing may be an issue but need to do a bit of paint work on the front (Hence blue tape) as I totally forgot to paint the front side of the radiator when I did the engine bay.
I ended up finding a company called CSF That makes a radiators and now also high performance oil coolers. Found one that looked good for a fit, 22" across x 4.5" tall. Pretty much perfect. The down side is that they are models for Porsche RSR's and as such are way more expensive then the generic one that is about the same size (by $200+). Oh well, that's the cost of doing business with a Tiger
The cooler mounts from the top and bottoms, so got the specs and had some brackets and spacers cut at Send Cut Send laser cutting. They are 100% the best place I have used, highly recommend. Uploaded my CAD files and in a couple of day had metal in my hand.
The idea was to use the bracket as a pattern to mark the mounting holes though the front snout of the car, and then use as a bottom support. Spacers were needed also as the welds on the cooler are above the flat surface of the mount. The Porsche mounts are different and fine for them.
Seem my car is far from square, so could not really measure much to get centers, and it was by 'Seems OK' type of positioning. Hole drilled , and dug up some Metric 8mm bolts that were too long but would get me going until McMaster shows up.
The bottom mount was going to be easy, but since things are off on my car I had to make some custom brackets for the bottom, need a bit of finish work to mount that to the laser cut bottom support.
Good project and fits nicely, hose routing may be an issue but need to do a bit of paint work on the front (Hence blue tape) as I totally forgot to paint the front side of the radiator when I did the engine bay.